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Proof (2024)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels black metal and depressive black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2022, based in Palermo, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Progressive doom/sludge metal band from London, active since 2011 and navigating the boundary between progressive composition and the crushing weight of doom and sludge metal. Their sound balances intricate arrangements with monolithic heaviness.
Black'n'roll band from Tampere, active since 2016 with a Finnish name meaning "gallery of death." Their rock-infused black metal adds swagger and groove to the genre's cold intensity.
Thrash/groove/death metal band from Lempaala near Tampere, formed in 2025 with a Finnish name meaning "hand of death." Their triple-genre approach delivers lethal heaviness from the Pirkanmaa region.
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.
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