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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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German black metal band from Glauchau and Niederfrohna in Saxony, active since 2009. They channel misty, atmospheric black metal from the western Saxon lowlands.
German black metal band from Saxony-Anhalt, formed in 2019. They deliver vengeful black metal from the eastern German heartland.
German black/death metal band from Annaberg-Buchholz in the Erzgebirge, formed in 2016. They merge black and death metal into a blood-frenzy of extremity from the Saxon mountains.
German black metal band from Ilmenau in Thuringia, active since 2005. With two decades of output, they are a steady presence in the Thuringian black metal underground.
Grindcore act from Timișoara, formed in 2016. Their music exists in a state of perpetual detonation, packing blast beats and screamed vocals into compositions that rarely exceed the two-minute mark.
German black metal band from Würzburg, formed in 2016. They deliver raw, bloodthirsty black metal from the Franconian wine country.
German black metal band originally from Riesa, later relocated to Dresden, formed in 2019. They channel stormy black metal fury from the Saxon plains.
German black/death/thrash metal band from Rostock and Kröpelin, formed in 2019. They draw from three extreme metal pillars for a devastating, multi-pronged attack from the Baltic coast.
German death metal and grindcore band from Wiesbaden, active since 2001. With over two decades of grinding extremity, they are a veteran Hessian death-grind outfit.
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