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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Blackened death metal force from Ried im Innkreis, Austria, merging the ferocity of death metal with black metal's dark atmosphere since 2020. Their releases include the albums Martyrium and Darkest Hour of Humanity, issued through Darker Realms Records.
Five-piece black metal battalion from Vienna, Austria, active since 2013 with a lineup featuring dual guitars, delivering darkness through releases including Dawn of the Unholy and Interfectorem Lucis. Their aggressive sound is documented across studio albums and a live recording from Enzersfeld.
Black metal project from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, delivering darkness from Spain's Atlantic island outpost since 2014. Their remote Canary Island origins lend an isolated, otherworldly quality to their black metal explorations.
Death metal band from the remote Cumbrian town of Millom, England, active since 2015. Their isolated Lake District origins lend an unusual geographic context to their death metal prophecies.
Brutal death metal band from Dijon, France, delivering punishing extremity from the Burgundian capital since 2018. Their sound embodies the genre's commitment to guttural vocals, blast beats, and relentless technical aggression.
Death and black metal band from the Netherlands, active since 2017. Their sound merges death metal's guttural extremity with black metal's atmospheric darkness in unholy sacramental fashion.
Rochester, New York's Unholy Semen have been combining black metal hostility with doom metal's dragging weight since 2005, building a sound that's as ugly as the name implies. Two decades in the underground have only made their contempt more refined.
Unholy Slough is a sludge/death metal band from Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia's Far East, delivering what they describe as slow and primitive metal. Their discography includes the albums Greatness, Triumph, and Chthonic Ritual.
Unholy Triumphant is a black/death metal band from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, with a discography that includes Ego Sum Ignis, Circulus Vitiosus, and The Diabolic Confession. The band delivers extreme metal steeped in Latin-titled darkness from western Ukraine.
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