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Procul His (2024)
Featured Death Metal (early); Atmospheric Black Metal (later) Album
Mortuorum (2023)
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Featured Black Metal/Punk Album
Entrecruces (2024)
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Death-doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2013. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the French capital.
Depressive black metal project from Cornwall, England, formed in 2023. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the English West Country.
Denver's Cold Moon fuses thrash aggression with death metal heaviness under the shadow of the Rockies, delivering blunt, no-frills metal that draws from the classic American tradition without apology.
Out of Monterey, California, Cold Mourning pursues the slow-moving weight of doom metal with funereal patience, conjuring atmosphere more akin to coastal fog rolling in at dusk than anything born of sunshine.
Black metal project from Milan, formed in 2015. Cold Raven crafts frigid, atmospheric black metal from Italy's largest city.
Cold Readings brings black metal's nihilism to the sun-scorched sprawl of Bakersfield, California, an unlikely pairing that gives their raw, corrosive sound a dusty, disorienting edge.
Death metal act from Nagyatád, Hungary, formed in 2013. Cold Reality delivers bleak, uncompromising extreme metal from the Somogy county underground.
Carbondale, Illinois' Cold Realm channels the aggression of crossover thrash with d-beat momentum and metal riffing — a lean, working-class attack from the collar-counties of southern Illinois.
Melodic death metal act from Kyiv, active since 2012. Cold Resistance has spent over a decade delivering hook-driven extreme metal from the Ukrainian capital.
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