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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Cold, unrelenting black metal from Roosendaal, active since 2013. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Black metal act from Flanders, Belgium, formed in 2024. A freshly emerged voice in the Flemish black metal underground.
Dutch raw black metal project active since 2015, burying its compositions beneath layers of caustic distortion and lo-fi haze. Their uncompromising approach to production channels the most primitive currents of the second wave.
Relentless Thrash Metal / Crossover from Dallas.
Heerhugowaard/Alkmaar-based thrash metal act active since 2013, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Dutch filter.
German death metal and grindcore band from Speyer, formed in 2012. They deliver relentless blasts of death-grind extremity from the Palatinate.
German death/thrash metal band from Bremen, formed in 2015. They combine death metal's crushing weight with thrash metal's speed from the Hanseatic city.
French death metal band from Toulouse, formed in 2014. They deliver age-old death metal brutality from the pink city of Occitanie.
German thrash/black metal band from Berlin, formed in 2021. They fuse thrash metal's headbanging energy with black metal's dark atmosphere.
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