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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Finland's Cvlt Ov The Svn emerged in 2018 as an anonymous, one-person project that cheekily coined the term "occult murder pop" to describe their disorienting fusion of black metal atmospherics, gothic rock darkness, and seductive pop melodicism — a combination nodding to Ghost, Type O Negative, and Marilyn Manson in equal measure. Signed to Napalm Records, the project's 2021 debut We Are the Dragon brought their provocative aesthetic to a wider audience, making them one of the more intriguing and idiosyncratic voices in Finnish extreme music.
Black metal band from Catalonia, Spain, formed in 2015. They craft dark, atmospheric black metal from the Catalan underground.
Youngstown, Ohio doom and stoner metal band spelling out heaviness in a deliberately obscured name as raw and slow as their riffs. CVTTVNMVVTH drags through cavernous, fuzz-drenched dirges from the Rust Belt underground.
Danish black metal project emerging in 2025. They channel darkness through raw, atmospheric black metal.
Welsh black metal band formed in 2022. Their Welsh name meaning dragon cult, Cwlt Draig channel Celtic and draconic themes through black metal.
Saint Paul heavy metal band named for the spectral hounds of Welsh mythology, bringing a dark, mythic sensibility to their sound. Cwn Annwn channels classic heavy metal songwriting with an atmospheric, lore-drenched edge.
Black metal project from Reykjavík, formed in 2021. Cxaxukluth — named after a Lovecraftian outer god — channels cosmic horror through Icelandic black metal.
CxFxCx is a crossover thrash band from Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, tracing their roots to the early 1990s when a group of teenage skaters formed the project in the city's underground scene. The band has remained continuously active and celebrated their 30th anniversary with a live-in-studio album recorded in a single day at Estúdio Soma in Porto Alegre, featuring 15 tracks spanning all phases of their career.
Death-doom-sludge act from Reykjavík, active since 2017. CXVIII delivers crushing, slow-burning heaviness that draws on Iceland's tradition of atmospheric extreme metal.
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