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Metalcore act from Rambouillet near Paris, active since 2013. Their energetic sound channels over a decade of experience in the Île-de-France metalcore scene.
Hierophante is a doom metal/drone act from Lille, France, active since 2014 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Higher Council of Mars is a doom/drone/post-metal band from Blackpool, England, formed in 2007. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
Doom/drone/sludge metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2010. Their suffocating blend of drone, doom, and sludge creates an overwhelming wall of sound from the Spanish capital.
Hirveä is a drone/doom metal act from Finland, active since 2017 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Hjarnidaudi is a drone/funeral doom metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2006. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Death metal and grindcore act from Helsinki, active since 2018. Their visceral name matches a sound that blends death metal's heaviness with grindcore's blasting brevity from Finland's capital.
Death metal outfit from the southeastern Finnish town of Hamina near the Russian border, active since 2015. Their Finnish-language name adds local character to old-school death metal from the borderlands.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina project Horseback is the primary creative vehicle of multi-instrumentalist Jenks Miller, who has released more than a dozen recordings since 2007 fusing drone metal, black metal, American roots music, and psychedelic noise into a consistently singular body of work. The Invisible Mountain (2009) and Half Blood (2012) are among the more widely recognized releases in a catalog that has appeared on Relapse, Hydra Head, and Three Lobed Records. Miller's willingness to draw equally from Neil Young's Crazy Horse and the work of Sunn O))) makes Horseback a difficult project to categorize but an easy one to recognize.
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