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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Stoner and doom metal band with experimental tendencies from Lviv, Ukraine, formed in 2022, delivering heavy, psychedelic-tinged doom from the western Ukrainian cultural hub. They bring cosmic heaviness.
Out of Panama City, Florida, Plibe has been warping the grindcore format since 2017, dragging noise and experimental abrasion into blast-beaten chaos that defies easy categorization. Their Bandcamp handle hints at the irreverence — this is grindcore as a canvas for sonic provocation rather than genre exercise.
Experimental death and doom metal band from Sonta, Serbia, named after the blood disorder porphyria. They bring medically themed experimental extremity to the Vojvodina underground.
Goregrind and experimental band from Strzelce Opolskie, Poland, active since 2009, whose deliberately provocative name matches the crude extremity of their grindcore. They bring over fifteen years of grotesque sonic experimentation.
Experimental doom metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, formed in 2020, pushing the boundaries of doom metal with unconventional and experimental approaches. They bring adventurous heaviness to the Tyneside metal scene.
Experimental and progressive metal band from Mako, Hungary, formed in 2021, exploring alien sonic territories through unconventional progressive metal. Their name evokes distant, unexplored landscapes matching their experimental approach.
Fayetteville, Arkansas's Pulsar Colony bend black metal into psychedelic and experimental shapes, using the genre's cold tremolo architecture as a launching pad for disorienting, outer-space explorations. Since 2014 they've been one of the more adventurous outliers to emerge from the mid-South underground.
Salt Lake City's Pure Dread work in experimental black metal territory, building on the genre's trademark atmosphere with disorienting structures and unconventional texture since forming in 2021. They're among the younger Utah acts pushing against the boundaries of what black metal permits.
Denton, Texas experimentalists Pyramids have spent over a decade dissolving the boundaries between post-metal, ambient, and shoegaze, crafting densely layered soundscapes that are as likely to drift into serene abstraction as they are to erupt into crushing noise.
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