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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Heavy metal band from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, formed in 2023. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Canary Islands.
Symphonic metal band from Nancy, France, active since 2012. They create grand, orchestral metal with dynamic arrangements from the Lorraine capital.
Power and progressive metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2021. They blend soaring power metal melodies with progressive complexity.
A doom and stoner metal project, Caduceus brings a heavy, narcotic quality to the genre, built around monolithic riffs and a slow, hypnotic sense of dread.
Epic death metal band from Oostrozebeke, Belgium, with releases including 'Whirler Of Fate,' 'Gentle Annihilation Of The Enthroned,' and 'Destination Caducity.' Their catalog spans multiple albums of grandiose, narrative-driven death metal rooted in the Belgian extreme metal tradition.
A progressive and technical death metal band from Champaign, Illinois, Caecus was active from 2012 before splitting up, developing a sound that merged intricate, shifting compositions with death metal brutality.
Black-death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2011. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the French capital.
A black metal project from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Caedem Inferni has operated in the underground since 2021, delivering raw and misanthropic black metal from the American Southwest.
Symphonic black metal project from Lisbon, formed in 2022. Caedeous blends orchestral grandeur with Portuguese black metal ferocity.
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