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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Black metal project from Kharkiv, formed in 2020. Cyllell — Welsh for 'knife' — channels sharp, cutting black metal from eastern Ukraine.
Progressive metalcore band from Brighton, England, formed in 2015. They blend progressive complexity with metalcore dynamics from the English south coast.
Utica, New York band merging progressive metal's technical ambition with the brutality of death metal. Cymatics draws on the science of sound and vibration as conceptual framework, building complex compositions from intricate rhythms and heavy riff structures.
Metalcore and thrash band from Chichester, England, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, they blend metalcore with thrash from the West Sussex cathedral city.
Black metal project from Kamienna Góra in the Sudeten mountains, formed in 2020. Cymeris channels atmospheric black metal from the mountainous border region of Lower Silesia.
Austin, Texas black metal band operating in the cold, riff-forward tradition of raw black metal. Cymoril cultivates a grim and uncompromising sound from the Texas underground.
Progressive metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2022. They craft intricate compositions from the Mediterranean port city.
Minneapolis sludge metal band named after the parasitic crustacean, reflecting a sound built on suffocating weight and slow, consuming heaviness. Cymothoa drags through tar-thick riffs from the Minnesota underground.
Death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing death metal from the Finnish capital.
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