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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Black metal project from Finland, active since 2020. Their Tolkien-derived name signals a connection to Finnish black metal's longstanding fascination with fantasy mythology.
Metalcore band from Biscay province in the Basque Country, Spain, active since 2019. They deliver breakdown-heavy metalcore from the Basque industrial heartland.
Black metal and industrial metal band from Athens, Greece active since 2018. They fuse cold black metal with industrial textures.
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Warsaw's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this black metal and death metal unit is among them — wielding venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. The compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Formed in 2018, this Zlaté Moravce Thrash Metal outfit delivers breakneck tempos and razor-sharp riff attacks. Their place within Slovakia's Central European metal enclave speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Black/death metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland active since 2014. They deliver fierce extreme metal from central Finland's university city.
Part of Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community, this act channels brutal death metal and death metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 2014, based in Kyiv, the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
Norrköping's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this black metal and death metal unit is among them — wielding dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
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