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Narrative (Instrumental) (2022)
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The Sensation (2023)
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Angst (2025)
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Thrash metal band from Bonn, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash from the former West German capital.
Long Island's Coldsteel brought East Coast thrash fury out of East Patchogue in the late 80s and early 90s, a hard-edged outfit from the same suburban metal seedbed that produced several of New York thrash's more underrated acts.
Black metal project from Gorno-Altaysk, the capital of the remote Altai Republic in southern Siberia, formed in 2021. ColdStorm channels raw black metal from the mountainous heart of Central Asia.
Black metal band from the Marl/Waltrop area of the Ruhr, Germany, formed in 2016. They channel cold, thorny black metal from the industrial heart of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Doom metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, active since 2007. With nearly two decades of activity, Coldun are veterans of the Saxon doom underground.
Orange County's Coldvoid deals in the depressive strain of black metal — raw, stripped-down, and uncomfortably personal — a project that rejects Southern California's warmth in favor of atmospheric emptiness.
Dublin death metal band active since 2004, one of the longer-running acts in the Irish extreme metal scene. Coldwar has spent two decades delivering unrelenting death metal from the Irish capital.
Death metal band from Tornio on the Swedish border, Finland, active since 2012. They deliver death metal from the northernmost reaches of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Depressive black metal project from Lublin, formed in 2025. ColdWinterSorrow channels bleak melancholy through atmospheric black metal from eastern Poland.
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