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Black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. They craft dark, channeling black metal from the Greek capital.
Doom and gothic metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2010. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres over crushing doom foundations from the Catalan capital.
Black metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2011. They channel blasphemous fury and dark intensity from the Swabian capital.
Chant of the Goddess is a Brazilian stoner/doom metal band with sludge metal influences, formed in 2017 in the São Paulo state region. The band released a self-titled debut album in 2017, produced by Sebastian Carsin and Renan Angelo, and appeared on the compilation Doomed & Stoned Latinoamerica Vol. I (2018) with the track "Sanctuary of The Scarlet Night."
Progressive power metal band from Murcia, Spain, formed in 2022. They blend soaring power metal melodies with progressive complexity from southeastern Spain.
Gothic progressive metal act from Varese, Lombardy, formed in 2019. Chantry blends dark atmospherics with progressive complexity.
Santa Barbara, California melodic death metal band Chao Lux combine the melodic sensibility of Gothenburg-influenced death metal with more aggressive death metal intensity. Their music features clean melodic hooks alongside harsher riffing and growled vocals.
Black metal project from Kyiv, formed in 2022. Chaoagnostic channels nihilistic black metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Black metal project from Temerin in Vojvodina, active since 2016. Chaoist crafts atmospheric black metal from the flatlands of northern Serbia.
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