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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Heavy metal band from Oldenburg in northern Germany, forging riff-heavy, straightforward metal since 2016. Their no-nonsense approach delivers the powerful hooks and driving rhythms of classic heavy metal.
Part of Turkey's rapidly expanding metal underground, this act channels heavy metal with a focus on iron-clad riffs and soaring melodic passages. Formed in 2015, based in Ankara, leather-jacket energy translated into headbanging-ready anthems.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, hammering out aggressive, riff-driven metal since 2021. Their approach combines the best of both genres with an emphasis on raw power and speed from the Swiss German-speaking region.
Heavy/doom metal act from Ugao-Miraballes in the Basque Country, Spain, forging crushing heaviness since 2020. Their Basque-language name reflects the deep cultural roots that inform their approach to doom-infused metal.
Encarnación is a heavy/thrash metal band from Mendoza, Argentina, that identifies their sound as "Trash metal Cuyano" — thrash rooted in the Cuyo region — drawing influences from Testament, Megadeth, Kreator, and Overkill. The band has released a self-titled debut album and the EP Consecuencias del Pasado, with a lineup that has featured vocalist Martín Velásquez, bassist Marcos Delamer, guitarists Horacio Velásquez and Alejo García, and drummer German Ramos; they have also represented Argentina at the South American Trash Metal Fest in Santiago, Chile.
Heavy metal and power metal band from Riihimaki, Finland active since 2009. They deliver classic melodic metal from southern Finland.
Milford, Massachusetts outfit Enchanted Exile trade in classic heavy and power metal that owes as much to traditional US metal as it does to European melodic power. Formed in 2015, they bring a no-frills conviction to anthemic, riff-driven songwriting.
Heavy metal band from Kortrijk, Belgium, keeping the flame of classic metal burning since 2011. Their traditional approach emphasizes powerful riffs and soaring melodies rooted in the European heavy metal canon.
Portuguese symphonic heavy/gothic metal band from Lisbon with a discography spanning On Light And Wrath, Mother Hope, Cerberus, and the 2024 orchestral reimagining Symphony of Cerberus on Inverse Records. Their female-fronted sound blends progressive metal complexity with gothic atmosphere across twelve orchestral arrangements.
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