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Pennsylvania's Eidolon has been constructing funeral doom with the patience the subgenre demands since 1992, one of the longer-running practitioners of death in slow motion — a ghost form that refuses to dissipate.
Black metal project from La Garde in southern France, active since 2018. They craft cold black metal from the warm Mediterranean coast.
Gothic metal and symphonic metal band from Tours, France formed in 2019. They blend dark romance with orchestral grandeur from the Loire Valley.
Death/doom metal project from Finland active since 2014. They fuse the brutality of death metal with the crushing weight of doom.
Post-black metal and post-rock project from Wurzburg, Germany, blending atmospheric textures with heavy, emotive compositions since 2013. Their German name, meaning "own world," reflects the introspective, self-contained universe of their expansive sound.
Olympia, Washington's Eigenlicht — "intrinsic light" — has been practicing black metal with a raw, Northern European seriousness since 2015, emerging from a city more associated with indie rock but building something colder and more ritualistic.
Progressive metal band from Zagreb, Croatia active since 2008. They deliver intricate progressive metal from the Croatian capital.
Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this death metal and progressive metal act from Stockholm traffics in technical virtuosity in service of expansive, cinematic narratives. Since 2018, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
A product of the birthplace of black metal, this Fredrikstad-based heavy metal act channels Maiden-esque gallops and Priest-inspired vocal histrionics. Active since 2021, they play metal the way it was meant to be: loud, proud, and unfiltered.
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