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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Gothic metal band from East Flanders, Belgium, active since 2012. They craft moody, atmospheric gothic metal drawing on the brooding romanticism and dark beauty that defines the genre's European lineage.
Progressive death metal act from Vila Real in northern Portugal, formed in 2016. Consequence blends technical ambition with death metal weight from the Trás-os-Montes region.
Death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2023. They channel fresh aggression through the lens of traditional death metal from the Czech capital.
Clarksville, Tennessee's Consider the Following; Suicide are a depressive black metal project steeped in raw anguish and lo-fi despair, drawing from DSBM's most isolationist and emotionally devastating traditions.
Black metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, active since 2010. They craft atmospheric black metal from the Finnish lake district.
Black metal project from Italy, active since 2009. Consolamentvm — using medieval Latin spelling — draws on Cathar heretical themes through atmospheric black metal.
French black metal project formed in 2021. They craft consoling darkness through atmospheric black metal.
Death metal and grindcore act from the Zaanstreek region, with renewed activity since 2019 but roots in the early Dutch extreme scene. Consolation is a veteran of the Netherlands' death metal underground.
Heavy metal band from Limburg, formed in 2020. Consonance delivers melodic, traditional heavy metal from the Netherlands' southernmost province.
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