RIFF VAULT Digging deep into rock & metal

Est. 2025

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rock & metal.

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Unverkalt

Héréditaire

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Greek roots, Berlin address, Season of Mist backing. Unverkalt's third album is their heaviest -- a wall-of-sound interrogation of inherited guilt that never lets up across nine tracks and fifty minutes.

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Cult of Occult

I Have No Name

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Seventy-one minutes of sludge as psychological descent. Cult of Occult strip away identity one track at a time across six movements of crushing, slow-moving devastation. Lyon's underground at its heaviest.

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Domhain

In Perfect Stillness

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Four Belfast musicians channel Irish myth and grief into five tracks of atmospheric post-black metal. Cello, choral vocals, and Chris Fielding's immaculate mix make this one of 2026's early highlights.

Genres covered: Post-Metal · Sludge · Stoner Rock · Black Metal · Doom · Progressive · Hardcore