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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Nantes-based act active since 2014, evolving from early avant-garde death metal into later industrial hip-hop and hardcore territory. Their radical stylistic shift reflects a restless experimental spirit.
Isgherurd Morth is a avant-garde/progressive black metal project from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, active since 2021 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Johann Wolfgang Pozoj is an experimental metal project from Zagreb, Croatia, whose name playfully references Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Their albums Birth of Pozoj and Escape of Pozoj explore avant-garde territory within the Croatian underground metal scene.
Rising from Soriano nel Cimino (Viterbo)'s metal underground, this Italian act forges Avant-garde Metal and Black Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Vienna-based project fusing black metal aggression with digital hardcore and deconstructed club beats, exploring themes of existentialism, trauma, and hedonism. Their albums Serotonin and NorAdrenalin pair distorted guitars with deep electronic lows in a style the project dubs "horny existentialism."
Avant-garde/progressive thrash metal and spoken word project from Estonia, formed in 2017 with a name meaning "potato" in Estonian. Their boundary-pushing approach merges thrash aggression with experimental spoken word and progressive structures.
Avant-garde black metal project from Brittany, active since 2013 with a Breton name meaning "deer stag." Their experimental approach draws on Celtic Breton culture to push black metal into unconventional, artistically ambitious territory.
Avant-garde progressive metal/rock band from Toulouse, active since 2013 and pushing musical boundaries from the Pink City. Their decade-plus of adventurous output explores the most experimental reaches of progressive heavy music.
Part of Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community, this act channels avant-garde metal and death metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 2023, based in Kalush, the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
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