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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Drawing from Katowice's metal heritage, this melodic black metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2012. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Funeral doom/black metal project from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2019. Named after the ancient Greek philosopher of pessimism, they create devastatingly slow, misanthropic music that merges funeral doom's crushing weight with black metal's cold despair.
Black metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. Their sound carries the cold intensity of Central European black metal, channeling darkness from the historic streets of the Czech capital.
From Koper in Slovenia, this progressive/post-metal act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2021. Their work contributes a distinctive voice to their regional underground scene.
Pagan black metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2013. Their sound weaves Iberian pagan traditions into fierce black metal, drawing on the pre-Christian heritage of the peninsula.
Czech band from Brno active since 2009, undergoing a remarkable evolution from black metal through post-black metal into post-rock. Their tenth album Cma explores themes from occupied Czechoslovakia with cinematic atmosphere, grounding their music in place, language, and personal experience.
Heidenland is a black metal project from Zwolle, Netherlands, active since 2015 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Netherlands black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Avant-garde black metal pioneers from Vienna, Austria, active since 1998 and signed to Napalm Records. Their albums A Death Gate Cycle and Trance Of An Unholy Union push black metal into experimental territory, blending unconventional song structures with atmospheric intensity.
Raw black metal/noise project from Osnabruck, Germany, active since 2015. Their harsh, lo-fi sound pushes black metal into abrasive noise territory with unrelenting sonic punishment.
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