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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Black metal project from Dusseldorf, Germany, whose name means "ore" in German, active since 2021. Their mineral-derived name reflects the raw, elemental quality of their black metal forged in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area.
Blasphemous Death / Black Metal / Grindcore from San Antonio.
Melodic thrash metal act from Dortmund in Germany's Ruhr Valley, formed in 2021. Their archaic German name, meaning "arch enemy," drives a sound that blends melodic precision with thrash metal's relentless aggression.
Black metal project from Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2021, sharing the same archaic German "arch enemy" moniker as its Dortmund namesake. Their approach channels raw, atmospheric darkness from the Bavarian countryside.
Raw black metal project from France launched in 2019. They channel primal aggression through lo-fi black metal.
Symphonic black metal project from Barcelona, Spain launched in 2023. They draw their name from the infamous Blood Countess, channeling dark aristocratic themes through symphonic extremity.
Erzsébet is a symphonic black/gothic metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2023 and signed to Sinne Records. The band's lyrical themes center on vampirism, gothic eroticism, romanticism, and death, drawing on the dark legacy of the historical figure their name references.
Budapest, Hungary — black metal and pagan metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2019, they deal in ancestral invocations amplified through black metal's sonic template. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Esbbat is a black metal band from Colombia, formed in 1996 in Cali before later relocating to Bogotá. One of the country's longer-running black metal acts, they have released five full-length albums including "Nigredo" in 2021, and have appeared on international samplers including "Alliance of Black Hordes" (2012). The band is currently signed to Black Serpent Records and explores themes of Satanism, darkness, and occultism.
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