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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Heavy metal band from Albi in the Tarn, France, active since 2005. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Occitan heartland.
Doom and heavy metal band from Dublin, active since 2009. Council of Tanith delivers crushing, occult-tinged doom with a classic heavy metal foundation.
Doom and heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2014. They craft absurdist doom with classic heavy metal hooks from the Finnish capital.
Heavy metal band from Cwmbran in South Wales, formed in 2019. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Welsh valleys.
Baltimore heavy metal band Court Jester play in the traditional mold — riff-driven songs, clean vocals, and a commitment to the classic structures that defined the genre in the 1980s. Their music is unpretentious and direct, made for fans of the form's roots.
Cova Rasa is a heavy metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, founded by guitarist Jayme Danko and keyboardist Collins Freitas. The band plays traditional heavy metal with horror-themed lyrics drawing on urban legends, serial killers, and supernatural narratives, and has released albums including "Deadline" (2018), "Cruzando Infernos" (2020), and "Another Time" (2025). They have served as opening act for international touring acts including Rhapsody of Fire and HammerFall in Brazil.
Fayetteville, Georgia's Covenant fuse groove metal's mid-tempo heaviness with thrash aggression and death metal bite. They operate in the tradition of mid-90s American metal, where crossover brutality was the defining characteristic.
Heavy-thrash metal band from Istres in Provence, France, formed in 2021. They blend classic heavy metal with thrash aggression from the Bouches-du-Rhone.
Portland oddity blending power metal bombast with doom weight and grindcore aggression in ways that shouldn't work but somehow do. Their catalog is unpredictable and deliberately genre-defiant.
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