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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Black-thrash metal band from London, active since 2013. Craven Idol have built a strong reputation for their ferocious, riff-driven black-thrash from the English capital.
Power metal band from Veitshochheim near Wurzburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They craft epic, melodic power metal with soaring vocals from the Franconian countryside.
Heavy metal band from Bern, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They forge a classic heavy metal sound driven by powerful riffs, anthemic hooks, and the spirit of the genre's traditional roots.
Folk-infused melodic death metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, active since 2012. They weave folk elements and dark melodies through a black and death metal foundation.
Melodic death metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 2010. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Bavarian capital with over a decade of experience.
Hermitage, Pennsylvania death metal band rooted in the Western Pennsylvania tradition of uncompromising underground heaviness. Their material is direct, brutal, and concerned with little beyond effective riff delivery.
Atlanta doom and sludge outfit dragging Southern heaviness through thick walls of distortion and oppressive low-end. Their sound draws from both the misery of doom and the grimed-out grit of the ATL underground.
Connecticut post-black metal project weaving folk elements into a harrowing atmospheric framework. Crawl Below balances earthy melodicism against the desolate bleakness of the black metal tradition.
Black metal band from Basel, Switzerland, active since 2012. They craft dark, intense black metal drawn from the genre's atmospheric and aggressive traditions.
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