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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Italian black metal act, active since 2015 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Denver's Eelnoc, born in 2021, collides black metal atmosphere with post-hardcore abrasion — a tension-driven combination that suits the mile-high city's restless underground. Cold riffs and confrontational energy in the same breath.
Doom and stoner metal quartet from Helsinki, Finland active since 2014, blending doom with psychedelic and desert rock textures. Their Finnish-language material features dual guitar attack from Visa Lattunen and Juho Laakkonen.
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Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this black metal act from Saint Petersburg traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2019, they've built a catalog that reflects Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape.
Black metal and symphonic metal project from France launched in 2023. They merge the grandeur of symphonic arrangements with black metal intensity.
Formed in 2021, this Östergötland Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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