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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
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Blood Eagle (2017)
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Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Portland, Oregon's Psychotropic carve an unusual niche in the Pacific Northwest underground, combining the corrosive weight of sludge metal with black and death metal's extremity — a murky, suffocating blend that suits Portland's reputation for genre-defying heaviness.
Salem, Ohio's Psyclosarin formed in 2019 playing a grinding hybrid of groove and death metal — the combination of rhythmic heaviness and technical death metal aggression gives them a distinct character within Ohio's active and underrated heavy underground.
Leipzig's Psycrotted delivers death-thrash with the intensity befitting one of eastern Germany's most culturally vibrant cities. Their Saxon base connects them to a growing scene that has emerged from the shadow of reunification with renewed creative energy.
Nordenham's Pryer delivers melodic heavy metal from Germany's North Sea coast, where the Weser River meets the ocean. Their maritime Lower Saxon setting infuses their anthemic sound with the wide-open energy of the Butjadingen peninsula.
Buchloe's Psycho Mania has been thrashing with Bavarian intensity since 2016, channeling the genre's '80s heyday through an Allgäu lens. Their Swabian market-town origins produce a sound fueled by blue-collar energy and punk-adjacent attitude.
Melodic doom and death metal band from Kremenchuk, Ukraine, formed in 2020, delivering melodic doom-death from the central Ukrainian city on the Dnieper River. They bring crushing melody.
Out of Cranston, Rhode Island, Ptarmigan have been grinding and blasting since 2009 with a hybrid of brutal death metal's technical gore and grindcore's no-frills velocity. Their approach favors relentless tempo shifts and suffocating low-end density over melodic concession.
Goregrind and death metal band from Alexandroupoli, Greece, formed in 2017, whose Greek name means 'corpse.' They deliver appropriately grotesque goregrind from the northeastern corner of Greece.
Named after one of Bulgaria's most iconic mountain ranges, Pirin channels the cold grandeur of the Balkan wilderness into atmospheric black metal. Active since 2015 out of Stara Zagora, their sound evokes windswept peaks and ancient Thracian landscapes.
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