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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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Death/doom and gothic metal band from Kuopio, active since 2014 with a Finnish name meaning "valley of death." Their sound merges crushing death-doom weight with gothic metal's dark elegance from the eastern Finnish lakeland.
Black metal project from Gottingen with a Finnish name meaning "prayer of the dying," formed in 2023 and channeling Finnish black metal influences from the German underground. Their sound bridges Finnish and German extreme metal traditions.
When Kuollut Rotta emerged in 2025 from Kyiv, 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.
Black metal project from Tampere, formed in 2026 with a Finnish name meaning "death." Their sound channels the most fundamental darkness through cold, atmospheric Finnish black metal.
Atmospheric black metal project from Tampere, formed in 2023 with a Finnish name meaning "death spinner" or "death wheel." Their compositions build vast, immersive atmospheres from Finland's second-largest city.
Black metal project from Juuka in North Karelia, formed in 2024 with a Finnish name meaning "slag" or "dross." Their sound channels the industrial waste imagery of their name through raw, atmospheric black metal.
Named for the ancient Sumerian underworld, Lexington, Kentucky's Kur has been dealing in blackened death metal since 2021. Their music draws on mythology to frame an unrelenting sonic darkness — grinding, malevolent, and rooted in both genres' most corrosive qualities.
Heavy metal band from Narpio in Ostrobothnia, formed in 2024 and delivering traditional metal from Finland's Swedish-speaking coastal community. Their curatorial name suggests a carefully considered approach to classic heavy metal.
Rising from Alblasserdam's metal underground, this Dutch act forges Death Metal and Melodic Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
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