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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Rochester, New York's Halothane approach melodic and progressive death metal with the methodical focus the genre demands, weaving technical ambition into compositions that never lose their emotional thread. Active since 2019.
Black metal band from Mainz, Germany, active since 2015, telling tales about the forces of darkness and the unending battle within every living entity. Their album Sermons Of The Black Flame delivers skilled guitarwork, accomplished songwriting, and diverse vocals across eight tracks of melodically informed black metal.
Black metal project from Denmark, formed in 2020. Their name meaning 'Throat Fire' in Danish, they forge fierce black metal from the Scandinavian underground.
Halsfang is a black metal project from Toulouse, France, active since 2013 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Operating from Yaroslavl, this doom/death metal project has been shaping dark sound since 2013. Drawing on classic blueprints, they deliver visceral extremity with conviction.
A relentless atmospheric black metal entity from Sweden, active since 2022. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Halucynogen is a death/thrash metal band from Rzeszów, Poland, formed in 2008. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
A relentless doom/death metal entity from Brighton, contributing to the british underground since 2021. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
Based in Oslo, this sludge metal/hardcore punk project has been a fixture of Norway's underground since 2025. Their work contributes a distinctive voice to their regional underground scene.
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