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Season of Mist

Season of Mist

Overview
Season of Mist is an independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels.-Overview:...

 and record distributor with subsidiaries
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, in business matters, is an entity that is controlled by a separate entity. The controlled entity is called a company, corporation, or limited liability company and in some cases can be a government or state-owned enterprise, and the controlling entity is called its parent...

 in France
France
France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

 and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , formerly known as Massalia , is the 2nd most populous French city as well as the oldest city in France...

, France. From the start releasing black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

, pagan metal
Pagan metal
Pagan metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that fuses extreme metal with "the pre-Christian traditions of a specific culture or region through thematic concept, rustic melodies, unusual instruments or archaic languages." The genre is closely related to folk metal and Viking metal but has a...

 and death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 records, the label moved on to releasing albums of avant-garde metal, gothic metal
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

 and punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 bands as well. Season of Mist is widely respected as one of the top labels in the extreme metal scene. The label has two offices, one in Marseille, France
France
France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

 and one in Philadelphia, USA.

From the beginning, Season of Mist focused on releasing more extreme heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...

 records by stylistically diverse bands like Oxiplegatz, Bethzaida and Kampfar
Kampfar
Kampfar is a pagan folk/black metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway. According to their singer, Dolk, their name is an ancient Norse battle cry which means Odin or Wotan.-History:...

.
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Season of Mist is an independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels.-Overview:...

 and record distributor with subsidiaries
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, in business matters, is an entity that is controlled by a separate entity. The controlled entity is called a company, corporation, or limited liability company and in some cases can be a government or state-owned enterprise, and the controlling entity is called its parent...

 in France
France
France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

 and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , formerly known as Massalia , is the 2nd most populous French city as well as the oldest city in France...

, France. From the start releasing black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

, pagan metal
Pagan metal
Pagan metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that fuses extreme metal with "the pre-Christian traditions of a specific culture or region through thematic concept, rustic melodies, unusual instruments or archaic languages." The genre is closely related to folk metal and Viking metal but has a...

 and death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 records, the label moved on to releasing albums of avant-garde metal, gothic metal
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

 and punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 bands as well. Season of Mist is widely respected as one of the top labels in the extreme metal scene. The label has two offices, one in Marseille, France
France
France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

 and one in Philadelphia, USA.

Music


From the beginning, Season of Mist focused on releasing more extreme heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...

 records by stylistically diverse bands like Oxiplegatz, Bethzaida and Kampfar
Kampfar
Kampfar is a pagan folk/black metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway. According to their singer, Dolk, their name is an ancient Norse battle cry which means Odin or Wotan.-History:...

. With the signing of Norwegian legends Mayhem
Mayhem (band)
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway. They are regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...

 the label's profile clearly shifted towards black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

 and attracted internationally renowned artists like Carpathian Forest
Carpathian Forest
Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990.Carpathian Forest's lyrics deal with themes such as Satanism, evil, anti-Christianity, sodomy, sadism, sexual depravity and suicide.-Biography:...

, Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ is a Greek metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene. - Line-up :...

, Arcturus
Arcturus (band)
Arcturus was a metal band formed in Norway in 1987 under the name Mortem. In 1990, the band changed their name to Arcturus , after the Behenian fixed star Arcturus.The band released four official full-length albums...

 and Solefald
Solefald
Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's...

. The latter are representing a marked progressive and avant-garde side Season of Mist. Those black and progressive aspects are both still reflected in recent signings like Watain
Watain
- Biography :The band's name hails from a recording by the American black metal group Von. After recording a few demos which the band does not intend to re-release, their first official release was the 7" EP The Essence of Black Purity on the Swedish label Grim Rune Productions, recorded in...

 and Cynic
Cynic
The Cynics were an influential group of philosophers from the ancient school of Cynicism. Their philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. This meant rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, health, and fame, and by living a life...

.

History


Season of Mist was formed in 1996, while founder Michael S. Berberian was completing his scholarships in “International Economics Sciences”. Since his graduation the label has become a full time job for Michael and achieved a steady growth with Season of Mist now employing 17 members of staff. In the year 2002 Season of Mist also started out as a distributor for the French territory, which meanwhile includes other Heavy Metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...

 labels like Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. It has offices in the USA, Germany, and Japan. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music Entertainment/RED Distribution. It was distributed by Warner Bros...

, Spinefarm Records
Spinefarm Records
Spinefarm Records is a Finland-based record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. In 1999, a sub-label titled Spikefarm Records was started by Sami Tenetz from Thy Serpent...

 or Napalm Records
Napalm Records
Napalm Records is an Austrian record label focused on underground heavy metal music.The label primarily focuses on gothic metal, folk metal, viking metal and symphonic metal but regularly signs bands from the death metal and black metal as well.- Roster :...

 on their roster.

Artists

  • ...And Oceans
    ...And Oceans
    ...and Oceans was a black metal band from Finland. As their career progressed, they pursued a less traditional, more industrial, electronica-oriented direction. After 10 years of existence the band changed its name to Havoc Unit in 2005....

     - Finnish
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland
    , is a Nordic country and democracy situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland...

     symphonic black metal
    Symphonic black metal
    Symphonic black metal is a black metal subgenre that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The genre is known for its symphonic and orchestral elements and is centralized in Europe.-Precursors:...

  • Abaddon Incarnate
    Abaddon Incarnate
    Abaddon Incarnate are an Irish blackened deathgrind band.-History:Abaddon Incarnate was formed in Dublin in 1991, playing fast death metal with grindcore elements. Under the name Bereaved the band released two demo cassette tapes, Signs of Death in 1992 and Tortured Souls in 1994...

     - Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland is a country in north-western Europe. The modern sovereign state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned on 3 May 1921. It is a parliamentary democracy and a republic...

     brutal death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Aborym
    Aborym
    Aborym is an Italian/Norwegian industrial black metal band who refer to their style as "hard/black alien industrial metal". This terminology is met out in their image by their use of extreme pornographic and erotic theatrics as well as neon corpse paint, and in their music by their use of...

     - Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

     / industrial music
    Industrial music
    Industrial music is an experimental music style, often including electronic music, that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s to describe Industrial Records artists...

  • Aghora
    Aghora (band)
    Aghora is a progressive metal/technical metal band formed in 1995 by guitarist Santiago Dobles. In 2000 they released their first album, Aghora, recorded and produced by Santiago Dobles and Dan Escauriza in 1999, Miami, Florida. The album featured Sean Malone and Sean Reinert, both members of Cynic...

     - American progressive metal
    Progressive metal
    Progressive metal is a fusion genre: a mixture of progressive rock and heavy metal. Progressive metal blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock...

  • Agressor - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Anaal Nathrakh
    Anaal Nathrakh
    Anaal Nathrakh are a British metal band formed in 1999 who fuse black metal, grindcore, death metal and industrial music. They are currently signed to Candlelight Records.The name comes from Merlin's Charm of Making in John Boorman's Excalibur...

     - British
    Great Britain
    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island. With a population of about 59.6 million people, it is the third most populated island on Earth. Great Britain is surrounded by over 1000 smaller...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Anata
    Anata
    Anata is a technical death metal band from Varberg, Sweden that formed in 1993.To date, they have released two demos, four albums and a split album with Bethzaida. In 2005, they completed recordings for an album titled The Conductor's Departure, released in June 2006 on Earache Records/Wicked World...

     - Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...

     technical death metal
    Technical death metal
    Technical death metal is a subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. As death metal bands evolved, some experimented with elements from a variety of genres...

  • Anorexia Nervosa
    Anorexia Nervosa (band)
    Anorexia Nervosa is a French symphonic black metal band that started as an industrial metal act from Limoges, France. The band was formed in 1995 and was active for ten years thereafter...

     - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     symphonic black metal
    Symphonic black metal
    Symphonic black metal is a black metal subgenre that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The genre is known for its symphonic and orchestral elements and is centralized in Europe.-Precursors:...

  • Arcturus
    Arcturus (band)
    Arcturus was a metal band formed in Norway in 1987 under the name Mortem. In 1990, the band changed their name to Arcturus , after the Behenian fixed star Arcturus.The band released four official full-length albums...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     avant-garde metal
  • Arkan - French death metal
  • Atheist
    Atheist (band)
    Atheist are a technical death metal band from Florida, founded in 1984, whose music combined metal riffs with subtle latin music arrangements and elements of jazz...

     - American Technical Death Metal
  • Atrox
    Atrox
    Atrox is an avantgarde metal band from Trondheim, Norway. The group originally formed under the name "Suffocation" but soon changed it because of numerous other bands with the same name. Formed in 1988, the band released its first material only in 1997, and followed it with two releases on notable...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     experimental metal
  • Bethzaida - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     dark metal
  • Black Dawn - Finnish
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland
    , is a Nordic country and democracy situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Bloodthorn
    Bloodthorn
    Bloodthorn is a Norwegian death metal band from Trondheim. Founded in 1992, they have gone through a number of musical developments, from the doomy, cold tunes of the Natteskyggen demo, to the atmospheric sounds of their debut In The Shadow Of Your Black Wings and their second album Onwards Into...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     atmospheric black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Blood Duster
    Blood Duster
    Blood Duster is a extreme metal/stoner rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Their name comes from the song "Blood Duster" by John Zorn, from the 1989 album Naked City.-History:...

     - Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...

    n grindcore
    Grindcore
    Grindcore, sometimes shortened to grind, is an extreme music genre that emerged during the mid–1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk.Grindcore is characterized by...

  • Cadaveria
    Cadaveria
    The extreme metal band Cadaveria was born in April 2001, forged by the erstwhile Opera IX personnel Cadaveria and Flegias, , the latter reverting back to his real name. The band signed to Scarlet Records for the opening 2002 album The Shadows' Madame...

     - Italian Gothic
    Gothic rock
    Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of Post-Punk and Alternative Rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

    /Doom
    Doom
    Doom is a landmark 1993 first-person shooter computer game by id Software. It was initially released for MS-DOS. It is widely recognized for popularizing the first person shooter genre, pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming, and support for custom expansions...

     Black Metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Carnival in Coal
    Carnival in Coal
    Carnival in Coal was an extreme metal/avant-garde metal band from France. Founded in 1995, the band mixed death metal, black metal and other extreme metal genres with genres such as easy listening, disco, and pop.-History:...

     - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     experimental metal
  • Carpathian Forest
    Carpathian Forest
    Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990.Carpathian Forest's lyrics deal with themes such as Satanism, evil, anti-Christianity, sodomy, sadism, sexual depravity and suicide.-Biography:...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Christian Death
    Christian Death
    Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1979. The band was fronted and founded by Rozz Williams and featured guitarist Rikk Agnew...

  • Confessor
    Confessor (band)
    Confessor is a doom metal band from North Carolina, USA. By their technically complex interpretation of traditional doom style, they are also well-known name within progressive metal circles...

     - US
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Technical
    Progressive metal
    Progressive metal is a fusion genre: a mixture of progressive rock and heavy metal. Progressive metal blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock...

     doom metal
    Doom metal
    Doom metal is a form of heavy metal music that typically uses very slow tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much 'thicker' or 'heavier' sound than other metal genres...

  • Corpus - Industrial metal
    Industrial metal
    Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Fear Factory...

  • Cultus Sanguine
    Cultus Sanguine
    -Bio:Cultus Sanguine was founded as a duo in 1993, but soon after expanded to a trio after adding a drummer. After a 1995 EP, they added the keyboards player Rex Nebulah before signing to Candlelight Records for the 1998 album Shadow's Blood. Following this the guitarist/bassist Aqua Regis and...

     - Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...

     gothic metal
    Gothic metal
    Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

  • Cynic
    Cynic (band)
    Cynic is a progressive metal band with incorporated jazz fusion elements, founded in Miami, Florida, US. Their first album, Focus released in 1993 , is widely regarded as a landmark release of the genre. The band released their second album on November 17, 2008...

     - American progressive metal
    Progressive metal
    Progressive metal is a fusion genre: a mixture of progressive rock and heavy metal. Progressive metal blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock...

  • Dagoba
    Dagoba (band)
    Dagoba is a French industrial metal/groove metal band formed in 2000 by vocalist Shawter out of a previous band.-Biography:In 2001, Dagoba signed on Enternote Records and recorded its first EP, Release the Fury, in digipak format and accompanied by a video for "Rush"...

     - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     Industrial metal
    Industrial metal
    Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Fear Factory...

  • Darkside - Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west...

    n death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Dawn of Relic
    Dawn of Relic
    Dawn of Relic is a Finnish black metal / dark metal band.-Biography:The band was formed by Jukka Juntunen in 1993 in Oulu, Finland. They released their first full length album, One Night in Carcosa, in 1999, on Wicked World Records...

     - Finnish
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland
    , is a Nordic country and democracy situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Dead Shape Figure - Finnish
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland
    , is a Nordic country and democracy situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland...

     thrash metal
    Thrash metal
    Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Thrash metal lyrics often deal with social issues using direct and denunciatory...

  • Deströyer 666
    Destroyer 666
    Deströyer 666 is a thrash metal band formed in 1994 by guitarist K.K. Warslut. The group originated in Melbourne, Australia but Warslut is now based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, while Shrapnel and Matt live in London, England, and Mersus in Germany....

     - Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...

    n blackened
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

     thrash metal
    Thrash metal
    Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Thrash metal lyrics often deal with social issues using direct and denunciatory...

  • Diabolic - American death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Drudkh
    Drudkh
    Drudkh is a Ukrainian metal band that mixes elements of folk metal and black metal. They were formed by Roman Saenko, the leading member of Hate Forest, Dark Ages & Blood of Kingu, who releases about two to three albums per year over various projects; Thurios, the leading member of Astrofaes and,...

     - Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Esoteric
    Esoteric (band)
    Esoteric is a British extreme doom metal band from Birmingham founded in 1992 that incorporates highly acute, somewhat distorted vocals and samples over slow paced riffs and atmospheric melodies.-Biography:...

     - British
    Great Britain
    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island. With a population of about 59.6 million people, it is the third most populated island on Earth. Great Britain is surrounded by over 1000 smaller...

     extreme
    Extreme metal
    Extreme metal is an umbrella term, somewhat loosely defined, for a number of related heavy metal subgenres that have developed since the 1980s...

     doom metal
    Doom metal
    Doom metal is a form of heavy metal music that typically uses very slow tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much 'thicker' or 'heavier' sound than other metal genres...

  • Fleshgrind - American death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Furious Trauma - Danish
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...

     thrash and roll
    Thrash metal
    Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Thrash metal lyrics often deal with social issues using direct and denunciatory...

  • Geasa - Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland is a country in north-western Europe. The modern sovereign state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned on 3 May 1921. It is a parliamentary democracy and a republic...

     pagan black metal
  • Gorelord
    Gorelord
    Gorelord is the one-man side project of Frediablo . Contrary to some reports, Gorelord is based in Norway. In September 2005 Frediablo issued a statement saying he was quitting Necrophagia among all of his music projects and bands he was involved in, except for Grimfist...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     gore metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Gorguts
    Gorguts
    -History:Gorguts were formed in 1989 by Luc Lemay , Sylvain Marcoux , Éric Giguère and Stephane Provencher . They released their first demo, ...And Then Comes Lividity, in 1990 which led them to be signed to Roadrunner Records...

     - Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Griffin - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     thrash metal
    Thrash metal
    Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Thrash metal lyrics often deal with social issues using direct and denunciatory...

  • Jungle Rot - American death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Kampfar
    Kampfar
    Kampfar is a pagan folk/black metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway. According to their singer, Dolk, their name is an ancient Norse battle cry which means Odin or Wotan.-History:...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     viking metal
    Viking metal
    Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterised by its galloping pace, keyboard-rich anthemic sound, bleakness and dramatic emphasis on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age.-Characteristics:...

  • Karelia
    Karelia (heavy metal band)
    Karelia is a French heavy metal band created in 2000 by Lionel Vest and Matthieu Kleiber.-Biography:Karelia first released a self-titled demo in 2000....

     - industrial
    Industrial metal
    Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Fear Factory...

    /gothic metal
    Gothic metal
    Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

  • Kill the Thrill - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     industrial metal
    Industrial metal
    Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Fear Factory...

  • Mayhem
    Mayhem (band)
    Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway. They are regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Meridian - Swiss
    Switzerland
    Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...

     symphonic black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Mezzerschmitt
    Mezzerschmitt (band)
    Mezzerschmitt is a Norwegian black metal band, a spinoff of the band Mayhem. It was formed in 2000 by Mayhem members Jan Axel Blomberg and Rune Eriksen collaborating with Lars Sørensen from Red Harvest. They intended to create an industrial metal band but their sound shifted toward black metal but...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     industrial black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Morgul
    Morgul
    Morgul is a Norwegian black metal band formed in Råde, Norway in the year 1991.- Biography :In 1991 Morgul soon recorded two demo-tapes: Vargvinter & In Gowns Flowing Wide, which were spread through the underground. Eventually this managed to garner them a deal with Napalm Records.The band at this...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • My Insanity - German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...

     gothic metal
    Gothic metal
    Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

  • Naer Mataron
    Naer Mataron
    Naer Mataron is a black metal band from Greece which draws on imagery from Greek mythology. The band was formed in 1994 after splitting from Nar Mataron, and was soon signed to Black Lotus Records, with whom they released four studio albums...

     - Greek
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Necrophagist
    Necrophagist
    Necrophagist is a German technical death metal band, founded and fronted by Turkish-German guitarist/vocalist Muhammed Suiçmez...

     - German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...

     death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Nocturnus
    Nocturnus
    Nocturnus was an American progressive death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida in 1987 by drummer/vocalist Mike Browning . They were known for their science-fiction themed lyrics and use of keyboards, both of which were virtually unknown in extreme metal...

     - American technical death metal
    Technical death metal
    Technical death metal is a subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. As death metal bands evolved, some experimented with elements from a variety of genres...

  • Order of the Ebon Hand - Greek
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Outlaw Order - American sludge metal
    Sludge metal
    Sludge metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that fuses doom metal and hardcore punk. In addition, it sometimes takes inspiration from sources as disparate as industrial music and Southern rock. Sludge metal is typically aggressive and abrasive; often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distorted...

  • Oxiplegatz - Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...

     industrial metal
    Industrial metal
    Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Fear Factory...

  • Penumbra
    Penumbra (band)
    Penumbra is a French gothic metal band. They have released their last two albums through Season of Mist. - Formation of Penumbra :The original founders of Penumbra were Jarlaath and Dorian, who met at a concert in 1996...

     - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     gothic metal
    Gothic metal
    Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

  • Red Harvest
    Red Harvest (band)
    Red Harvest are a Norwegian industrial metal band from Oslo. Their 2002 album Sick Transit Gloria Mundi was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy and an alternative Grammy in the "Best Metal Album" category...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     industrial metal
    Industrial metal
    Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Fear Factory...

  • Rotting Christ
    Rotting Christ
    Rotting Christ is a Greek metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene. - Line-up :...

     - Greek
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....

     gothic
    Gothic metal
    Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

    /melodic black metal
  • Salem
    Salem (band)
    Salem is an Israeli extreme metal band, pioneers of the oriental metal movement and of the Israeli heavy metal scene in general. Much of their lyrics and music deals with political issues concerning the Jewish people and Israel, most notably the concept albums Kaddish and Collective Demise .-...

     - Israel
    Israel
    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...

    i Oriental metal
  • Septic Flesh
    Septic Flesh
    Septic Flesh is a gothic-influenced death metal band from Athens, Greece, which was founded in 1991.- History :Septic Flesh was formed in March 1990 by Sotiris Vayenas , Spiros Antoniou , and Christos Antoniou , and quickly released a debut EP, Temple of the Lost Race in December 1991...

     - Greek
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....

     death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

     gothic metal
    Gothic metal
    Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

  • Seth - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Solefald
    Solefald
    Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     avant-garde metal
  • Soul Demise
    Soul Demise
    Soul Demise is a German death metal band from Neumarkt in Bavaria, founded in 1993 as Inhuman. Their musical style is mainly influenced by Swedish band At The Gates and their Göteborg sound....

     - German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...

     death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

  • Sturmgeist
    Sturmgeist
    -Beginnings:In 2002, Cornelius Jakhelln began working on a new band. The name chosen was Sturmgeist , and the band plays an experimental style of black/thrash metal with lyrics sung in English, Norwegian, and German about Germanic folklore, war, and recitations of Goethe poetry...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     experimental
    Experimental music
    Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in North America, and whose most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

     black
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

    /thrash metal
    Thrash metal
    Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Thrash metal lyrics often deal with social issues using direct and denunciatory...

  • Syrinx
    Syrinx (band)
    Syrinx was a Canadian electronic music group active from 1970 to 1972. Their song, "Tillicum", received national attention as the theme music for the television series Here Come the Seventies.-Members:* John Mills-Cockell - keyboards...

     - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     heavy metal
    Heavy metal music
    Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...

  • Tactile Gemma - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     heavenly voices
    Ambient music
    Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

  • The Bleeding Light - Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a country in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north , Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south...

    n dark industrial metal
    Industrial metal
    Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Fear Factory...

  • The CNK
    The Cosa Nostra Klub
    The Cosa Nostra Klub is a French black metal/industrial metal band, founded in Clermont-Ferrand, in 1996 by Mr Hreidmarr and Mr Heinrich Von B...

     - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     industrial metal
    Industrial metal
    Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Fear Factory...

  • The Crest - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     gothic metal
    Gothic metal
    Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

  • The Dillinger Escape Plan
    The Dillinger Escape Plan
    The Dillinger Escape Plan is an American experimental mathcore band named after John Dillinger, and they are from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The band originated in 1997 after the disbanding of Arcane, a hardcore punk trio consisting of Ben Weinman, Dimitri Minakakis, and Chris Pennie...

     - American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     mathcore
    Mathcore
    Mathcore is a rhythmically complex and dissonant style of metalcore. It has its roots in bands like Converge, Botch, and the Dillinger Escape Plan. The term mathcore is suggested by analogy with math rock. Both math rock and mathcore make use of unusual time signatures...

  • The Old Dead Tree
    The Old Dead Tree
    The Old Dead Tree is a gothic doom metal band from the city of Paris, France founded in 1997.-Musical style:Their musical style is a mixture of death metal elements, such as double bass drumming and heavy guitar riffing, and more mellow, progressive, gothic metal and doom metal elements...

     - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     extreme
    Extreme metal
    Extreme metal is an umbrella term, somewhat loosely defined, for a number of related heavy metal subgenres that have developed since the 1980s...

     gothic metal
    Gothic metal
    Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

  • Tsjuder
    Tsjuder
    Tsjuder was a Norwegian black metal band that was founded in 1993.The name Tsjuder was picked from the Norwegian movie The Pathfinder...

     - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Twelfth Gate - American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     heavy thrash metal
    Thrash metal
    Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Thrash metal lyrics often deal with social issues using direct and denunciatory...

  • Viking Crown
    Viking Crown
    Viking Crown was a side project started by Phil Anselmo in the mid 90's. The first Viking Crown release was an EP recorded in 1994 titled Unorthodox Steps of Ritual which featured Phil, credited as Anton Crowley, on guitar, bass, drums and vocals. The two later Viking Crown releases would feature...

     - American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Watain
    Watain
    - Biography :The band's name hails from a recording by the American black metal group Von. After recording a few demos which the band does not intend to re-release, their first official release was the 7" EP The Essence of Black Purity on the Swedish label Grim Rune Productions, recorded in...

     - Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...

     Black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Winds of Sirius - French
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     gothic metal
    Gothic metal
    Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal...

  • Wurdulak - Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty...

     black metal
    Black metal
    Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....

  • Yattering - Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe . Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     technical death metal
    Technical death metal
    Technical death metal is a subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. As death metal bands evolved, some experimented with elements from a variety of genres...


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