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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
Black Ninja (2013)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Black metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2011. They channel cosmic conflagration themes through atmospheric black metal.
Denver death/thrash band that conjures something ancient and menacing from well-worn genre forms. Their riff-forward approach stays rooted in classic extremity with a sufficiently heavy cosmic bent.
Underground psychedelic doom conjuring dark fantasy and occult allegory. Featured on the 'Doomed & Stoned in Texas' compilation.
San Marcos, TX doom and stoner metal band that mixes heavy psych fuzz with the dirge-like pace of traditional doom. They ride the slow burn of Texas heat into heavy, hazy oblivion.
Thrash metal band from Wasbek in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Cosmic Haze are seasoned thrash veterans from the North German plains.
Los Angeles grindcore band that delivers brief, ferocious blasts of controlled chaos. Their music is surgical in its brutality — fast, hostile, and over before you can process what hit you.
Black metal band from Southern England, formed in 2021. They channel cosmic themes through raw black metal.
Atmospheric black metal project from Hesse, Germany, formed in 2019. They craft vast, immersive atmospheres exploring themes of cosmic isolation through raw black metal.
Progressive thrash act from Zhytomyr in central Ukraine, formed in 2022. Cosmic Jaguar delivers technically ambitious thrash from the Polissia region.
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