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Somewhere Better (2022)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Atlantic Albums (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
04/23 @ The Criterion - OKC, Oklahoma City
Featured Death Metal Album
Regicide (2025)
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Black-death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2023. They channel chthonic darkness through extreme metal from the Greek capital.
Black metal project from Moscow, formed in 2020. Chthonian Abyss channels subterranean darkness through raw black metal.
Gothenburg black/death metal act formed in 2025, adding a fresh voice to Sweden's most storied metal city. Their extreme fusion draws from the darkest wells of both genres.
Knoxville's Chthonic Abomination tears through black metal and grindcore with feral energy and a total disregard for sonic comfort, resulting in short, violent, and chaotic bursts of noise. Their approach is combative and unpolished in the best underground tradition.
Blackened death metal project based in Wrocław with international membership, formed in 2022. Chthonic Cult channels subterranean darkness through aggressive extreme metal.
Denver death metal band Chthonic Deity plays crushing, riff-forward extreme metal shaped by Colorado's active underground scene. Their music is rooted in the genre's foundational elements: brutal riffing, blasting percussion, and uncompromising heaviness.
Black metal band from Heraklion, Crete, formed in 2017. They deliver chthonic, ritualistic black metal from the Cretan capital.
Death metal act from Trondheim, active since 2013. Chton contributes to the city's deep well of extreme metal with crushing death metal brutality.
Raw black metal project from Nowy Sącz in Lesser Poland, formed in 2020. Chtonian delivers lo-fi, primitive black metal from the Sądecka Valley.
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