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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Swiss atmospheric black metal band from Zurich, formed in 2023 and crafting ethereal compositions. Named after the biblical wheel-angels, their sound channels celestial, otherworldly atmosphere through black metal.
Greek act Ophidian merges black metal's cold atmospherics with doom metal's ponderous weight, creating a serpentine hybrid that coils between blast-driven aggression and slow, crushing heaviness. Their compositions inhabit a dark, oppressive sonic space.
Technical/melodic death metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2021. Their serpent-themed name accompanies technically demanding melodic death metal from the Icelandic capital.
Samara black metal project active since 2019, channeling serpentine malice from this Volga River city. Their ophidian name and venomous approach to black metal draw from both the Russian underground tradition and wider European influences.
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Strasbourg's Ophidian Spell combines symphonic grandeur with melodic death metal's twin-guitar harmonies and death metal's visceral punch. Their ornate arrangements weave orchestral textures through technically proficient riffing, creating a richly layered sound.
West Midlands-based Ophidious fuses black and death metal into a venomous hybrid that strikes with precision and aggression. Their dual-genre approach creates a sound that is both atmospherically dark and brutally direct.
German gothic metal band from Mulsen in Saxony, crafting darkly romantic compositions since 2017. Named after a snake-related concept, their sound channels serpentine, sinuous gothic metal darkness.
German death/doom metal band from Hamburg, delivering crushing, slow-burning extremity since 2004. Named after the Greek word for snake, their two decades of oppressive death/doom mark them as Hamburg scene veterans.
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