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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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Progressive black metal act from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, expanding the genre's boundaries through ambitious compositions since 2015. Their Greek name, meaning "ecstasy" or "standing outside oneself," reflects a transcendent approach to black metal.
Death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Turenki/Hameenlinna, Finland, active since 2016. They deliver diverse extreme metal from the Tavastia region of southern Finland.
Black metal act from Bonn, Germany, channeling raw, uncompromising darkness from the former German capital since 2017. Their approach stays true to black metal's core principles of atmospheric hostility and tremolo-driven intensity.
Death metal, folk metal, and melodic death metal band from Angers, France active since 2015. They fuse folk melodies with extreme metal intensity from the Maine-et-Loire department.
Active in Mezőkovácsháza since 2021, this Hungarian act forges Groove Metal built on thick, muscular guitar tone married to body-moving rhythms. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
Swedish black metal act, active since 2024 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in the country that refined both melody and brutality, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
An American symphonic black metal project that materialized in 2025, Ekvitkar arrives with grand orchestral ambitions wrapped around black metal's traditional ferocity. One of the newest entries in the symphonic extreme metal underground.
Folk metal/rock act from Madrid, Spain, weaving traditional folk melodies into a heavy framework. Their approach brings folk storytelling and acoustic textures into a metal context with Spanish cultural flair.
Goregrind band from Russia active since 2018, channeling the genre's trademark ultraviolent absurdity and lo-fi extremity. Their sound pushes grindcore into the most grotesque sonic territory.
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