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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Groove/thrash metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2013 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven metal that merges thrash velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch. Their sound hits hard with a no-nonsense approach to heavy, pit-ready metal.
One of the newer entries in the US black metal underground, Kaldevind emerged from Cary, North Carolina in 2025 with a sound rooted in icy, traditional black metal aesthetics. The name — Norwegian for "cold wind" — signals exactly what kind of darkness they're pursuing.
French black metal project from Bar-le-Duc in Lorraine, active since 2014 with a Norwegian name meaning "cold hell." Their Scandinavian-influenced black metal channels Nordic darkness from the French countryside.
When Kaldur emerged in 2019 from Rasskazovo, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Operating out of Bergen, this Norwegian act forges Black Metal built on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.
Rome-based power metal act, active since 2014 delivering uplifting harmonic progressions and virtuosic instrumental interplay. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, anthemic choruses and virtuosic solos define their approach.
Reykjavik progressive death/black metal project formed in 2019 from the ashes of black metal band Draugsol, led by Maximilian Klimko with drummer Kjartan Hardarson. Their debut Heart of Lead transforms "the absurdity of the human experience into something palpable," synthesizing progressive death metal riffing with Hellenic leads, viola passages, and psychedelic layering in the vein of Opeth and Enslaved.
Saint Petersburg-based atmospheric black metal and black metal act, active since 2015 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels folk metal with a focus on traditional folk melodies woven into heavy metal frameworks. Formed in 2007, based in Parma, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
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