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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Atmospheric black metal and ambient project from Oslo, Norway formed in 2020. Well Haven crafts expansive atmospheric soundscapes that bridge black metal darkness with ambient serenity.
Denver's Well of Sacrifice have been mining progressive death metal since 2018, bringing a compositional discipline to extreme music that the Denver scene has increasingly fostered as it has matured. They build death metal that thinks about where it is going — structure and technicality in service of emotional impact rather than as ends in themselves. One of Denver's more serious contributions to the intersection of brutality and craft.
German doom metal band from Ulm whose demo and rehearsal recordings were originally released by Secret Port Records in Greece in 2002. Their nine-track collection The Awaken showcases epic and traditional doom metal with songs exploring themes of legions, oracles, and the void.
Whiskey-soaked Southern Metal from College Station.
Black metal band from Tampere, Finland formed in 2020. Welldemon draws from the deep well of Finnish black metal tradition, crafting cold aggression from Finland's third-largest city.
Post-metal band from Lisbon, Portugal active since 2015. Wells Valley crafts expansive, atmospheric post-metal from the Portuguese capital on the Atlantic coast.
Depressive black metal and ambient project from Rouen, France with roots stretching back to 1992. Weltanschauung, meaning "worldview" in German, channels over three decades of bleak introspection through atmospheric DSBM from Normandy.
Black/death metal and deathcore band from Mannheim, Germany active since 2006. Weltenbrand merges the blast-beat intensity of black and death metal with deathcore's crushing breakdowns from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Austrian depressive black metal act from Vöcklabruck exploring themes of transcendence and metaphysical darkness through German-language compositions. Their releases Transzendenz Schatten Romantik and Schöpfung channel bleak introspection into atmospheric black metal with a philosophical bent.
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