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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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Neurotica is a multi-genre metal band from Catanzaro, Calabria, blending experimental, groove, industrial, progressive, and thrash metal since 2014. Their ambitious genre-spanning approach reflects the restless creative energy of southern Italy's underground.
Neurotoxic is an experimental grindcore and death metal band from Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt, active since 2005. Two decades of boundary-pushing extremity from the Altmark region make them a fixture of eastern Germany's underground.
Zvolen experimental/progressive black metal act formed in 2009, pushing beyond conventional genre boundaries from central Slovakia's forested highlands. Their adventurous approach channels black metal through a progressive lens.
Nichts is a black metal and experimental project from Duisburg in the Ruhr Valley, active since 2012. The project's name meaning 'nothing' reflects an existentialist approach to experimental black metal from the industrial Rhine port.
Portland's Night Heir bend and fracture black metal into something restless and unpredictable, injecting experimental impulses that corrode the genre's familiar shapes from within. Over a decade of quietly transgressive work.
Tampa's Nightmare Council drag death metal into strange, uncomfortable territory, weaponizing experimental structures against genre conventions in a city that practically invented the form. Unsettling, warped, and proudly outside the boundaries.
Nihilkult is an experimental black metal project from Paris, France, founded in 2000 by H.C.L. under the name Enuma Elish. After a hiatus from 2008 to 2014, the solo project returned with an industrial and experimental approach to extreme metal.
Athenian experimental doom metal project launched in 2024, pushing the genre's boundaries through unconventional sonic approaches. Their adventurous take on doom metal refuses to be constrained by traditional genre formulas.
Nolove is an experimental depressive black metal project from Piła, Poland, active since 2019. Their blunt name captures the emotional void at the center of their DSBM.
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