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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Progressive death metal act from Piacenza, active since 2013. Cyneris blends technical complexity with death metal heaviness from Emilia-Romagna.
Death metal and grindcore band from Potsdam, Germany, active since 2004. With two decades of grinding extremity, Cyness are veterans of the Brandenburg underground.
Raw black metal band from Northumberland, England, formed in 2024. Named after the Anglo-Saxon poet, Cynewulf channel ancient English themes through primitive black metal.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Malvern, England, formed in 2021. They channel the spirit of classic British heavy metal from the Worcestershire hills.
Dallas doom and sludge metal band anchored in crushing mid-paced heaviness and a dark, suffocating atmosphere. Cynical delivers the kind of slow, heavy punishment that defines Texas sludge.
Brutal death metal band from Saarbrucken, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver punishing, guttural brutality from the Franco-German border region.
Boston death/grind band operating in the New England extreme metal underground with an unrelenting approach to brutality and noise. Cynicism attacks with short, punishing blasts of combined death metal and grindcore aggression.
Temecula, California raw black metal project channeling the most primitive and hostile tradition of the genre. Cynicism CA operates in the underground with a deliberately stripped-down, lo-fi, and caustic black metal aesthetic.
Gothic industrial metal act from Stange in Hedmark, active since 2008. Cynicon merges dark electronic elements with gothic metal from the Norwegian interior.
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