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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Portland, Oregon's Jahai forge a hybrid of melodic death and groove metal that leans hard into rhythmic momentum, their songs balancing the melodic accessibility of the Scandinavian death tradition with a more muscular, body-moving pulse.
Jakeplutonium is a Finnish thrash metal solo project by Jake Veijonen, combining elements of thrash, groove, death, and black metal into an unpredictable blend. His album Alone All Year (2021) features ten tracks of eclectic, genre-crossing extreme metal that defies easy categorization.
Jarell is a metal project from France that channels dark, aggressive energy through heavy compositions. Their work contributes to the diverse French extreme metal underground with intense, emotionally driven heavy music.
Jeanne Dark is a post-punk, shoegaze, industrial, and doom project from Zurich, Switzerland (listed under Hungary), that emerged in 2024 using raw analog technology and mystical sounds. Their debut singles including Guillotine and Der Apparat explore themes of mental anguish through atmospheric, genre-blending dark alternative music inspired by the historical French freedom fighter.
Jerk is a thrash metal band from Switzerland that delivers aggressive, high-energy metal with a raw and confrontational edge. Their stripped-down approach to thrash draws on the intensity of the genre's classic era while maintaining a distinctly Swiss underground identity.
Jimmy Oldfield is a solo metal musician from the United Kingdom who has released five albums spanning groove, heavy, thrash, and stoner metal. His most recent release Immortal Form (2023) features vocalist Jeffery Yu alongside his own instrumental work, all self-produced with a Creative Commons approach to distribution.
Jimmy Sticks is a metal musician from Perm, Russia, whose releases including Hero of the Alcohol Front deliver aggressive, thematically provocative heavy music. His work channels raw metal energy through the lens of the Russian underground scene.
Jorge Gomez is a self-taught guitarist from Madrid, Spain, who creates instrumental metal spanning groove and thrash styles. His album Beyond Blackened (2020) was recorded at The Metal Factory Studios with drummer Daniel Garcia, showcasing four tracks of hard-hitting instrumental metal with precise, aggressive guitar work.
Little Rock, Arkansas act Judgemental draw from the overlapping traditions of heavy, thrash, and groove metal, forging a sound with the swagger of the South and the aggression of the thrash belt. Active since 2017 and firmly planted in the mid-American heavy metal underground.
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