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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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A product of Scandinavia's melodic death metal epicenter, this Karlstad-based black metal act channels frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Active since 2022, blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Black metal act from Graz, Austria, channeling raw, misanthropic aggression since 2019. Despite a Bandcamp handle referencing doom, their sound is rooted firmly in the tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat intensity of traditional black metal.
Sludge/doom metal act from Brunswick, Germany, crafting crushing, slow-burning compositions since 2019. Their hermit-referencing name reflects the isolated, introspective character of their oppressively heavy sound.
South Wales, United Kingdom — black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2019, they deal in raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Straddling the line between black metal and doom metal, this Latvian actfrom Riga fuses venomous shrieks over walls of distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2019, and the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Depressive black metal band from Lisbon, Portugal formed in 2022. Their sound channels the atmospheric bleakness and emotional weight of depressive black metal from the Portuguese capital.
In existence since 2020, this Pechora Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Progressive metal band from Paris, France active since 2010. They deliver technically ambitious progressive metal from the French capital.
When Ereskigal emerged in 2017 from London, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and death metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
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