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Backyard Babies are a sleaze rock and hard rock band from Nässjö, Sweden, formed in 1987 and widely credited with popularizing sleaze rock across Scandinavia. Their discography spans eight studio albums and two Swedish Grammy Awards, with Total 13 (1998) and Stockholm Syndrome (2003) regarded as landmark records in the genre. The band's roster has included guitarist Dregen, who concurrently played in The Hellacopters, and their 2008 self-titled album reached number one on the Swedish albums chart.
Bardoma is a Buenos Aires heavy metal band built around guitarist Eduardo Tobio and vocalist Sabrina Gorosito, with Facundo Alvarado on drums and Matías Lopresti on bass. The band released a self-titled debut in 2024 and followed it with the more metal-focused "En La Zona Letal" in 2026, presenting the new album live at Club V in March of that year.
Black Side is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Haedo, in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, who have been active since 2007. Over the course of their career they have released four albums — De que manera terminar (2007), Evolución (2009), Take Me Away (2014), and Atlantis (2017) — building a steady following in the Argentine heavy rock underground.
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