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@kmanriffs.bsky.social

DETH DEKK DOMINIONS:🎧🆕🎧

SHADOWMASS - Wastelands 🇬🇷⚛️

2nd album (7 years on) from Athens, Greek Thrash/Speed Metal outfit⚛️

BC➡️flogarecords.bandcamp.com/album/wastel... ⚛️

#Shadowmass #Wastelands #ThrashSpeed #FlogaRecords #DethDekk #DDDJan20 #KMäN

January 22, 2026 at 7:56 PM

Imanny

@imannymetal.bsky.social

Thrash with a splash of Black from Greece, and it rocks hard

#BlackMetal #ThrashMetal #metalsky

Arriton, by Shadowmass

from the album Wastelands

flogarecords.bandcamp.com

April 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM

Roberto Osti

@robertoosti.bsky.social

Mastering Softness: Red & Graphite Portrait Drawing Technique
#PortraitDrawing #RedCrayon #GraphiteDrawing #ArtTechnique #SoftDrawing #VolumeDrawing #ShadowMass #DrawingTips #ArtTutorial #FigureDrawing #TraditionalArt #ArtLessons #BeginnerDrawing #PortraitArt #Sketching #FineArt #DrawingPractice

August 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM

The Black Metal Archives

@horrorarchives666.bsky.social

Greek Blackend Heavy/Thrash Metal trio Shadowmass have announced their new album, Wastelands, will be released January 19th via Floga Records.
Read all about it on the Black Metal Archives.
#thrashmetal #heavymetal #metalmusic #metalcommunity #metalsky

Shadowmass Announce New Album: Wastelands

Greek Blackend Heavy/Thrash Metal trio Shadowmass have announced their new album, Wastelands, will be released January 19th via Floga Records. You can watch the video for Into Wastelands here: https:/...

blackmetalarchives666.com

December 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM

Musipedia Of Metal

@musipediaofmetal.bsky.social

Another set of 🇬🇷/🇨🇾 bands with new albums from:

#Shadowmass #LeaveTheWave #HiddenInTheBasement #Sevengill

musipediaofmetal.blogspot.com/2026/01/revi...

January 21, 2026 at 2:35 PM

Heavy Blog is Heavy

@heavyblog.bsky.social

The first truly big release day of 2026 is here, with new records from Crystal Lake, Megadeth, Textures, Rotting Christ, Poppy, Pelican, Alkaloid, Hamasaari, Barbarian, The Damned, Shadowmass, New Miserable Experience and more.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/01/23/release-roundup-1-23-26/

Release Roundup: 1/23/26

The first truly big release day of 2026 is here, with new records from Crystal Lake, Megadeth, Textures, Rotting Christ, Poppy, Pelican, Alkaloid, Hamasaari, Barbarian, The Damned, Shadowmass, New Miserable Experience and more.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com

January 23, 2026 at 3:52 PM

GingerBredMan1989

@gingerbredman1989.bsky.social

Built in Shadow, Revealed in Iron

#HoodedBeast #ShadowMass #GymGuardian #IronMystery
#VeinsAndVengeance

A cinematic, ultra–high-resolution portrait of a massively ultra-muscular male bodybuilder standing alone in a dim, gritty industrial gym, partially obscured in shadow. He wears a dark hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled low, casting deep shadow across his face so that only the lower half of his strong jaw and faint stubble are visible, creating an aura of mystery and quiet intensity. His physique is monumental and hyper-detailed—enormous rounded deltoids stretching the hoodie fabric, colossal biceps and triceps pressing tightly against the sleeves, and a vast, barrel-like chest rising beneath the cloth. The sweatshirt subtly clings to his form, revealing striations and density beneath the fabric. His forearms are bare, thick, and vascular, veins branching like cables under taut skin. He wears short athletic gym shorts and classic black-and-white Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers, grounded in realism against the rough concrete floor dusted with chalk and sweat marks. The environment is a raw, old-school industrial gym—rusted steel beams, hanging chains, worn weight plates, and a heavy barbell resting nearby. A single overhead fluorescent light flickers, casting harsh directional light and deep shadows, while faint shafts of light cut through dust particles in the air. Subtle rim lighting outlines his silhouette, emphasizing the immense scale of his physique while keeping his identity hidden. The mood is tense, quiet, and reverent—like a solitary guardian of strength, caught between anonymity and legend. Hyper-realistic, cinematic lighting, volumetric atmosphere, dramatic contrast, shallow depth of field, 8k detail, award-winning composition, storytelling through shadow and form.

March 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM

Eldritch

@eldritchelitist.bsky.social

Blackened thrash from Greece with potent melodic chops, killer riffs, and loads of variety. The last few tracks felt a bit weaker than the rest to me, but if they grow on me, I'll absolutely bump up the score. 3.5/5

January 27, 2026 at 9:19 PM

Transcending Obscurity

@transcendingobs.bsky.social

Greek black metal band #Decipher will be going on tour with Shadowmass. FYI, they are putting the final touches on their new full length album - keep an eye out!

Listen to their stellar previous album here - decipherbm.bandcamp.com

June 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM

SuperScience

@superscience.xyz

Friday's Edge of the Abyss is #NowPlaying on @untidyradio.com! Here is the full tracklist for the show. It's a killer episode! #metalsky #deathmetal #blackmetal #thrash

Secularization - Kosuke Hashida
Limb of Leviticus - Archspire
Born to Die - Banisher
The Blink - Skulld
Crawl of Time - Nightmarer
Dismember All Humans - Cadavrul
Lucid Dream Trauma - Invictus
Mainstream Mutilation - Casket
Masticate the Subdued - Stabbing
Golden Chains for the Construction of Individual Greatness - Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum
Primitive Medicine - Deathraiser
Break the Chains - Furi Helium
Purge and the Savage Preacher - Shadowmass
Nocturnal Hound - Vaulderie
Sledgehammer - Barbarian
Forsaken Armor - Final Dose
Crown Cult Fate - Karloff
I AM - Profane Elegy
Death I Cast, Death I Long For - Orgg
Cryptæ - Gorrch
The Pathetic Festival - Malignant Aura
The Angry Hermit - Sad Whisperings
Astral Crypt - Lord Elephant

February 2, 2026 at 10:18 PM

OMINOUS VOMIT

@ominousvomit.bsky.social

Floga Records does it again and releases a monster of a thrash record with Shadowmass from Greece. Satanic!

#thrashmetal #metalsky

wintertormentwebzine.blogspot.com/2026/02/shad...

Shadowmass--Wastelands (CD/LP/CS) {2026 Floga Records}

Well, Floga Records has done it again and released a band that's every bit as good as the Necrochakal release I reviewed in these pages a wh...

wintertormentwebzine.blogspot.com

February 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM

Ondřej Hanus

@ondrejhanus.bsky.social

3/4
– Flittering – Usurped, death
– Karloff – Revered By Death, black/punk
– Ligation – After Gods, death/doom
– Nergal – Blessed, black
– Sacrificial Death – Absolute Katharsis, death
– Sad Whisperings – The Hermit, black/doom
– Shadowmass – Wastelands, thrash

January 29, 2026 at 7:43 PM

NoCleanSinging

@nocleansinging.bsky.social

Andy Synn presents the 2nd "Things You May Have Missed" article dealing with overlooked albums from January... this time featuring new releases from GORRCH, HIERON, THE HIRSCH EFFEKT, and SHADOWMASS! www.nocleansinging.com/2026/02/05/t...