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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Spanish heavy metal band from Zaragoza, forging classic heavy metal since 2009. Named after the historical region spanning southern France and northeastern Spain, their sound channels Iberian metal heritage.
Le Havre death metal act formed in 2018, bringing extreme metal to Normandy's largest port city. Their output channels death metal's darkest impulses from a city better known for its UNESCO-listed modernist architecture than its metal scene.
Death metal band from Iquique in Chile's Tarapacá region whose lyrics engage with occultism and spiritual transcendence, delivered entirely in Spanish. Their debut album El Yo Superior Nunca Olvida was recorded in Iquique in late 2014 and released in 2018 via Blood Harvest Records, with the band also issuing a two-track promotional release, Promo MMXVIII, the same year.
California's Occult Mountain traffic in raw black metal and dungeon synth with the lo-fi intensity of a project that has nothing to prove to anyone. Born in 2025, their sound is primitive, isolated, and entirely committed to the underground's most uncompromising traditions.
Stoner/doom metal band from Rovaniemi, Finland — the city on the Arctic Circle — active since 2010 with a demo featuring tracks like Weedemon and Green Mind. Their heavy, riff-driven approach delivers stoner doom from one of the world's most northerly metal scenes.
Italian black metal project active since 2020, channeling occult darkness through black metal.
Ibiza-based black metal project active since 2015, creating a striking contrast between the island's hedonistic reputation and their occult-tinged extremity. Named with a Latin phrase meaning 'hidden stone,' their work trades in alchemical and esoteric themes.
German melodic death/thrash metal band from Horneburg with rock elements, blending harmonic sophistication with aggressive precision since 2011. Their all-seeing-eye name signals the watchful, perceptive character of their versatile metal.
Berlin doom/black metal act operating since 2010, pairing doom's glacial pacing with black metal's tonal bleakness. Over fifteen years in the German capital's vast underground, they have carved out a niche in the intersection of these two dark traditions.
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