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Bríi is an atmospheric black metal, ambient, and electronic project based in Brasília, Brazil, formed in 2020 by musician Caio Lemos, who also records under names including Kaatayra and Vauruvã. The project released the critically noted album "Último Ancestral Comum" in 2023, issued on vinyl by Season of Mist and digitally through Flowing Downward, blending raw black metal blast beats with trance, club electronics, and post-rock atmospheres. Bríi has drawn international attention for its genre-defying fusion of Brazilian sonic identity and extreme metal.
Depressiona was a depressive black metal project from Betim, Minas Gerais, Brazil, blending electronic and industrial elements with the raw abrasiveness of DSBM. Active from 2017 until their split-up, the band contributed a track to the 2019 DSBM Brazil compilation and self-described their sound as melancholic and politically charged.
Dominion III is an Austrian industrial electronic project created in 1998 by Alexander Opitz (known as Tharen), also the founder of the gothic project Dargaard. The project serves as Opitz's vehicle for heavier, guitar-driven industrial expression, incorporating black metal elements and post-apocalyptic atmosphere alongside vocalist Elisabeth Toriser. Their debut album The Hand and the Sword (2000) on Draenor Productions was followed by Life Has Ended Here (2002) on Napalm Records.
Eihwar is a French pagan folk and electronic duo from Toulouse, formed in 2023 by Asrunn and Mark. The project combines Nordic folk vocals, ritual chanting, shamanic percussion, and electronic trance production into what the band describes as 'Viking War Trance.' Despite their recent formation, they released the album Ragnarök in 2023 on Season of Mist and have performed at major European festivals including Wacken Open Air and Hellfest.
S U R V I V E is an Austin, Texas quartet formed in 2009 by Michael Stein, Kyle Dixon, Adam Jones, and Mark Donica, crafting dense synthesizer-driven music indebted to 1980s film composers such as John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream, and Giorgio Moroder. The group released the acclaimed album RR7349 in 2016, showcasing slow-tempo compositions blending darkwave, electro, and ambient electronics. Dixon and Stein gained widespread recognition beyond the underground when they composed and performed the score for the Netflix series Stranger Things, winning an Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.
Techno Animal was formed in London in 1990 by Justin Broadrick (Godflesh) and Kevin Martin (The Bug), combining industrial noise, dub, dark ambient, and hip-hop into an early example of what would later be called illbient. Their debut Ghosts appeared in 1991, with subsequent albums released through Virgin Records, and the project disbanded in 2001 after six LPs spanning a decade. Broadrick and Martin reunited in 2017 under the name Zonal, continuing the sonic legacy of Techno Animal in a new context.
San Diego multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle launched The Album Leaf in 1998 as a solo project while playing guitar in post-rock band Tristeza, initially self-releasing limited cassette experiments in ambient texture and field recordings. The project gained international recognition after Sigur Rós took LaValle on tour, leading to the acclaimed Sub Pop release In a Safe Place (2004), a landmark of delicate, orchestrated instrumental ambient music. LaValle has continued releasing records under the name, expanding the project to include a full live band and occasional vocals.
Theodor Bastard formed in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1996 under the direction of founder Fedor Svoloch, adopting the current band name in 1999 as an English rendering of his stage pseudonym. The project is defined by the distinctive soprano vocals of Yana Veva, who frequently sings in invented languages and rare world tongues, layered over a palette of cello, harp, theremin, synthesizers, and ethnic percussion that blends neofolk with dark wave and trip hop. Albums including Pustota (2004), Oikoumene (2012), Vetvi (2015), and Volch'ya Yagoda (2020) have been released across five countries, and the band has performed at European festivals including Wave-Gotik-Treffen and Castle Party. Their work for the game Pathologic 2 (2017) introduced them to a new international audience.
Thomas Giles is the solo project of Tommy Giles Rogers Jr., vocalist and keyboardist for progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me, who has used the alias to explore territory incompatible with his main band's aesthetic. Pulse (2011) on Metal Blade Records launched the project formally, followed by Modern Noise (2014), Velcro Kid (2016), and Don't Touch the Outside (2018), each drawing on electronic music, synth-pop, and experimental rock over increasingly pure departures from metal. Rogers has described the project as a space for material that cannot fit within Between the Buried and Me, giving it a deliberately open-ended, genre-agnostic character.
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