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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Connecticut doom and stoner metal duo from East Haven conjuring massive, fuzz-laden riffs and meditative heaviness. Curse the Son operates in the tradition of sleep-deprived, riff-worship doom with hypnotic repetition.
Black metal band from Tornio on the Swedish border, Finland, active since 2011. They craft atmospheric black metal from the northernmost reaches of the Gulf of Bothnia.
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.
Central Valley, California band fusing black and death metal into a raw and confrontational sound. Cursed CA operates in the underground with caustic riffs and an unpolished ferocity.
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.
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