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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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Epic doom/death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2016. Their grand, atmospheric compositions merge the crushing weight of doom-death with epic orchestral ambitions.
Gothic Metal/Rock outfit rooted in Tula, channeling furious underground intensity since 2020. Energetic performances and committed songwriting define their approach.
Sludge/Drone/Doom Metal force from Athens, searing and relentless since 2015. Slow, deliberate riffing and suffocating atmospheres form the foundation of their craft.
Progressive heavy/power metal band from Krefeld, Germany, formed in 2020. Their ambitious approach combines the grandeur of power metal with intricate progressive structures in a sophisticated sonic tapestry.
Heavenwood is a gothic metal band from Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, formed in 2020. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal layered with emotional depth.
Bred in Athens's underground, this act delivers grim sludge/stoner metal since 2015. Their work contributes a distinctive voice to their regional underground scene.
Death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, active since 2010, drawing comparisons to Morbid Angel, Immolation, and Gorguts. Their album Denouncing the Holy Throne has been praised as a genre-enriching masterpiece where every technically proficient note serves the song's dark, blasphemous vision.
Heaving Sun is a doom/death metal band from Glasgow, England, formed in 2013. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Death metal outfit from Cardiff, the Welsh capital, active since 2022. Named after a mythological hybrid creature, their sound delivers crushing death metal with monstrous intensity from the Welsh underground.
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