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Featured Album
Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Death metal band from France, formed in 2021. They channel cursed darkness through death metal.
Black metal project from Kraków, formed in 2020. Cursebinder channels occult black metal from Poland's cultural capital.
Detroit death metal band trading in straightforward brutality and no-frills aggression. Cursed draws on the Motor City's rich extreme metal tradition with punishing riffs and guttural vocals.
Black metal act from Jönköping, active since 2007. Cursed 13 has spent nearly two decades crafting raw black metal from the Småland highlands.
Death metal and deathcore band from Hamburg, Germany, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh, punishing extremity to the Hanseatic metal scene.
Seattle atmospheric black metal project conjuring vast, frost-bitten soundscapes layered with cold tremolo riffs and haunting ambience. Cursed Amulet channels the Pacific Northwest's brooding atmosphere into expansive black metal ritualism.
Power and heavy metal band from Motilla del Palancar in Cuenca province, Spain, active since 2011. They deliver melodic, anthemic metal from the rural Castilian interior.
Groove-thrash metal band from Gravesend, England, formed in 2015. They combine heavy grooves with thrash speed from the Kent riverside town.
Columbus, Ohio gothic metal band weaving dark atmosphere, heavy guitar work, and melancholic melody into brooding compositions. Cursed Be draws on the gothic metal tradition with an emotionally resonant and gloomy aesthetic.
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