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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Black Metal/Crust force from Piteå/Umeå, searing and relentless since 2022. Rooted in orthodox black metal, their work channels darkness with unwavering conviction.
Epic doom metal project from Bradford in West Yorkshire, active since 2018. Their monolithic name matches towering, ritualistic doom compositions that channel crushing weight and dark grandeur.
Emerging from Budapest's underground, this black metal act has been forging furious sonic fury since 2021. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Heavy metal/hard rock band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2002. Over two decades of riff-driven heavy metal and hard rock have made them a veteran act in the Madrid scene.
Viennese post-black metal duo formed in 2011 by vocalist JJ and multi-instrumentalist Matthias Sollak, signed to AOP Records. Their expansive albums including Aokigahara, III: Trauma, and Arson weave together black metal intensity with post-rock and shoegaze textures across sweeping eight-to-ten-minute compositions.
Melodic death metal band from Essen, Germany, active since 2010. Their polished sound brings Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to the heart of the Ruhr industrial region.
Silicon Valley's Harass have been bringing thrash metal to Santa Clara since 2012, a Bay Area band working in the shadow of legends but doing it with enough aggression and conviction to carve their own space.
Harassed is a death metal band from Östersund, Sweden, active since 2015 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Los Angeles' Harassor weld black metal misanthropy to hardcore punk fury, a confrontational and abrasive act since 2010 whose music sounds like it was recorded in a burning building on purpose.
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