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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Black metal project from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, channeling revelatory darkness since 2012. Their name, meaning "epiphany" or "manifestation," suggests a transcendent quality to their atmospheric black metal.
Murmansk's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal and doom metal unit is among them — wielding HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Symphonic black metal act from Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, Germany, blending orchestral grandeur with black metal's raw aggression since 1999. Their quarter-century career reflects deep commitment to the fusion of classical beauty and extreme metal ferocity.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Jindrichuv Hradec in southern Bohemia, Czech Republic, fusing melodic intensity with hardcore energy since 2017. Their approach bridges the harmonic richness of melodic death metal with metalcore's rhythmic breakdowns.
Emerging from Eskişehir, this Turkish act forges Black Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
New York's Epistasis take their name from a genetics term describing how one gene suppresses another — a fitting metaphor for experimental black metal that distorts and subverts its own conventions. Formed in 2023, they're already pushing the genre into unsettled territory.
Cedar City, Utah's Epistemic Silence pursue avant-garde melodic death metal, approaching the genre with philosophical skepticism built into their very name. Founded in 2024, they're one of the more conceptually ambitious acts to emerge from the Mountain West's metal underground.
Firmly rooted in death metal, this Slovak actfrom Trnava delivers HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition without compromise. They've been at it since 2015, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Maryland's Epistle write funeral doom as if constructing letters to the void — slow, deliberate, and weighted with unbearable sorrow. Out of Myersville since 2014, they embody the funeral doom tradition in its purest American expression.
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