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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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Scottish thrash/death metal band from Dunfermline, merging thrash velocity with death metal brutality since 2015. Their lycanthropic name signals the savage, predatory character of their extreme metal.
French black metal band from Colmar in Alsace, active since 2015 and channeling lycanthropic themes through atmospheric darkness. Their sound draws from the werewolf mythology central to their identity.
Hungarian death metal band from Dunaujvaros, channeling the genre's brutal essence since 2019. Their lycanthropic name signals the predatory, transformative character of their death metal.
Swedish black metal project active since 2015, channeling lycanthropic themes through raw intensity. Their werewolf-derived name signals the predatory, transformative character of their black metal.
French brutal death metal band from Dole, delivering punishing extremity since 2008. Their nearly two decades of commitment to brutal death metal mark them as veterans of the French underground.
German black metal project from Schriesheim, active since 2018 and channeling lycanthropic themes through raw intensity. Their sound draws from the primal, predatory side of black metal's atmospheric traditions.
German melodic black metal act from Hesse, formed in 2018 and blending harmonic richness with black metal's aggressive framework. Their approach layers melodic guitar lines over the genre's characteristic ferocity.
Hayward's Lychdom craft melodic death metal anchored in traditional heavy metal songcraft, keeping hooks within reach even as the tempos accelerate and the riffs grow more complex. Active since 2016, they're one of the Bay Area underground's better-kept secrets.
London-based avant-garde black/doom metal band active since 2013, self-described as 'Metal's soundtrack to dystopia' on Debemur Morti Productions. Their five-album catalog from 'Lychgate' through 'Precipice' pushes black and doom metal into cerebral, experimental territory.
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