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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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Melodic black metal project from Paris, France launched in 2025. They bring fresh melodic intensity to the Parisian black metal scene.
Death metal and progressive metal band from Tours, France active since 2015. They blend technical complexity with death metal brutality from the Loire Valley.
Straddling the line between avant-garde metal and black metal, this Icelandic act fuses venomous shrieks over walls of distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2020, and the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Denver's Ekelhaft — German for "disgusting" — has been practicing a no-frills, antagonistic strain of black metal since 2016. The name sets expectations that the music meets without apology.
Doom/death/black metal project from Rakovnik, Czech Republic, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest threads since 2021. Their medically abbreviated name belies a sound that is anything but clinical in its raw, oppressive heaviness.
Part of Portugal's intimate but fiercely devoted metal community, this act channels black metal and death metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2023, based in Lisbon, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Milan, Italy — black metal and symphonic metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2019, they deal in cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Death metal act from Denmark, delivering guttural extremity since 2006. Their eclipse-referencing name evokes the darkening of light that characterizes their approach to Scandinavian death metal.
Folk metal band from Poitiers/Egletons, France active since 2008. They weave French folk traditions into heavy metal from the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
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