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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Black metal project from Lower Saxony, Germany, whose name means "loneliness" in German, active since 2013. Their solitary moniker reflects the isolated, introspective character of their atmospheric black metal compositions.
Atmospheric black/doom metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia formed in 2021. Their German name — meaning "loneliness is darkness" — encapsulates their sound's blend of atmospheric bleakness, black metal hostility, and doom metal's crushing weight.
Active in Nitra since 2009, this Slovak act forges Black Metal built on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.
Rising from Radenci's metal underground, this Slovenian act forges Heavy Metal built on leather-and-studs authenticity in a modern framework. The spirit of NWOBHM burns bright in their songwriting.
Atmospheric black metal solo project from Vienna by musician S.P. (known from Lebenssucht, Détresse, and ex-Svarta), blending depressive and soothing soundscapes with raw black metal intensity. Their 2024 self-titled debut explores mortality and the cycle of life and death across six immersive chapters.
Straddling the line between black metal and doom metal, this Polish actfrom Poznań fuses venomous shrieks over walls of distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2016, and the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Post-black metal band from Turku, Finland active since 2017, blending folk, post-metal, and atmospheric black metal with both growled and clean vocals. Their 2024 fourth album Monokroma is a concept record celebrating the band's 10th anniversary.
A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2020, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Buffalo's Eira threads together blackened death and progressive metal into something genuinely restless since forming in 2022. The band's willingness to pull from multiple extreme subgenres at once keeps things unpredictable and sharp.
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