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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
05/15 @ Paribu Art - Ana Sahne, İstanbul
Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Black metal project from Poznań, formed in 2025. Czarna Jucha — a Polish blood soup — channels dark folklore through raw black metal from Greater Poland.
Polish black metal project formed in 2019. Czarna Magia — Polish for 'black magic' — delivers occult-driven black metal.
Funeral doom act from Lublin, eastern Poland, active since 2011. Czarna Rozpacz — Polish for 'black despair' — crafts glacially slow, sorrowful funeral doom from the Lublin underground.
Bismarck, Arkansas doom and stoner metal band conjuring fuzz-soaked heaviness from the rural South. Czarus leans into the slow, meditative power of stoner doom with riffs built for maximum amplifier worship.
Black metal project from Szczecin in northwestern Poland, formed in 2019. Czernina — named after the Polish blood soup — channels dark folk horror through black metal.
Post-metal death-sludge act from Warsaw, active since 2014. Czerń — Polish for 'blackness' — merges atmospheric post-metal with crushing death and sludge elements.
Polish black metal project from Silesia, formed in 2018. Czort — a Slavic devil figure — channels blasphemous black metal from the industrial heartland.
Death-groove act from Żmigród in Lower Silesia, active since 2010. Czoug delivers heavy, rhythmically-driven extreme metal from the Polish countryside.
Cárcere is a thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2018. The independent band released their debut EP "Crimes de Guerra" in December 2018, a five-track slab of aggressive Brazilian thrash rooted in the classic traditions of the genre.
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