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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Groove/heavy metal band from Brasília, Distrito Federal, formed in 2016, singing entirely in Portuguese. Their 2025 album Post Mortem is a seven-track record featuring songs such as "Escravo Perpétuo," "Vulcão Sem Dono," and "Velórios e Núpcias," available on major streaming platforms.
Totemcult is a traditional black metal band from Iquique, Chile, in the country's far north. Formed in 2022, the band released their self-titled debut full-length that same year, a seven-track record that includes a cover of Isengard's "I Kamp med Kvitekrist" and draws on themes of misanthropy and Andean cosmology.
Totemcult is a traditional black metal band from Iquique, Chile, in the country's far north. Formed in 2022, the band released their self-titled debut full-length that same year, a seven-track record that includes a cover of Isengard's "I Kamp med Kvitekrist" and draws on themes of misanthropy and Andean cosmology.
Black/death metal band from Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, active since 2011 and operating independently. The band released the split 7" Oráculo de Fezes / Pentáculo de Crânio alongside Necrosodommy in 2016 through Arauto da Morte Records, with their side recorded at Estúdio Riff in Cuiabá, and followed it with the EP Não in 2019.
New York black metal project Toten operate with the raw, underground intensity that defines the American black metal underground, pursuing uncompromising and atmospheric darkness away from any mainstream concessions.
Toten Hex is a sludge/doom metal band from Oswestry on the Welsh border, active since 2017. Their Germanic name, meaning 'Death Hex,' suits their crushing approach to sludge and doom from the Shropshire borderlands.
Totengeflüster from the Swabian Jura craft symphonic black metal whose German name — 'whispers of the dead' — captures the spectral, orchestral atmosphere of their compositions since 2019. Their sound layers sweeping symphonic arrangements over black metal intensity from the limestone plateau of southern Germany.
Totengott from Bottrop in the Ruhr Valley channel black metal under the banner of 'death god,' delivering blasphemous extremity from the industrial heartland since 2014. A decade of activity from the northern Ruhr has produced compositions of relentless, deity-slaying hostility.
Totengräber is a black metal project based in Morges, Switzerland, formed in 2020, with releases including "LZ - 129/Hindenburg" and "-V-." The project crafts historically-themed black metal that channels events of catastrophe and destruction through raw, atmospheric compositions.
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