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Featured Album
Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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German avant-garde black metal band from Klingenthal in Saxony, formed in 2021. They push black metal into unconventional, experimental territory from the Erzgebirge mountains.
Since 2017, this Greek thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Athens. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Spanish death metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2013. They construct corpse-building death metal from the Catalan capital.
German melodic death/groove metal and metalcore band from Böblingen, formed in 2024. They merge three aggressive metal styles with melodic sensibility.
German black metal band from Berlin, formed in 2024. Named after the Italian word for darkness, they channel Mediterranean-tinged black metal from the capital.
Catania-based doom metal act active since 2013, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Stoner doom act from the Netherlands, formed in 2014. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
Spanish groove/thrash metal band from Ciudad Real, formed in 2014. They blend groove metal rhythms with thrash metal aggression from the La Mancha plains.
Danish raw black metal project formed in 2018. They deliver stripped-down, primitive black metal in its rawest form.
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