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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Progressive metal band from Zalau, Romania, active since 1996, making them one of the longest-running progressive metal acts in the country. Nearly three decades of progressive ambition from the Salaj region.
Death and black metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, active since 2008, delivering over seventeen years of extreme metal from the transcontinental city. They are veterans of the Turkish underground.
Black metal band from Sobienie-Jeziory, Poland, formed in 2017, whose name means 'primitive' in Polish. They deliver raw, stripped-down black metal true to their primal name.
Thrash and groove metal band from Quintanar de la Orden, Spain, formed in 2023, channeling nuclear-age intensity through aggressive thrash and groove metal. Their Chernobyl-referencing name evokes the catastrophic power behind their sound.
Black metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2026, whose name means 'predawn' in Polish. They represent the absolute newest wave of Polish black metal from the Lower Silesian capital.
Active since 2018 and operating out of Tampere, Finland, Praeternatura pursue a austere and ritualistic strain of black metal grounded in the Nordic tradition of atmosphere and sonic punishment. Their music resists accessibility in favor of immersive darkness, treating the genre as a vessel for something that feels genuinely beyond the natural order.
Black and death metal band from Wroclaw and Zlotoryja, Poland, formed in 2014, whose name means 'pillory' in Polish. They deliver punishing blackened death metal from the Lower Silesian region.
A melodic death metal outfit from Wheeling, West Virginia, Psalms of Silence blends the hook-driven melodicism of the Gothenburg tradition with a heavier, American brutality. Active since 2017, they channel somber atmosphere into punishing riff structures.
Melodic black metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2019, whose name fuses psalms with the satanic in characteristically Norwegian fashion. They bring melodic black metal to the city that shaped the genre.
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