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Heavy and stoner metal band from Varazdin, Croatia, named with a Tolkien reference, active since 2019. Their sound combines traditional heavy metal weight with stoner metal's fuzzy, riff-driven psychedelia.
Usaria is a solo progressive heavy/thrash metal project from Krakow, Poland, blending old-school heavy, thrash, death, and progressive metal into a conceptual whole. Their 2025 debut Nekromanteia is a concept album set in 1893, centered on a seance in an occupied Poland nobleman's manor.
Use Less is a heavy metal band from Kamnik, Slovenia, active since 2012 and delivering straightforward heavy metal from the alpine town north of Ljubljana. The project channels classic metal energy from Slovenia's mountainous heartland.
Users is a heavy/thrash metal band from Celje, Slovenia, active since 2018 and trafficking in aggressive, riff-driven metal from Slovenia's third-largest city. The project contributes to the growing Slovenian thrash metal underground.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, named after the legendary father of King Arthur, active since 2015. Their Arthurian theme and classic metal sound honor the New Wave of British Heavy Metal tradition.
Uuhai formed in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2020, founded by Otgonbaatar Damba of established Mongolian heavy metal band Hurd. The band incorporates traditional Mongolian instruments — including the Morin Khuur horse-head fiddle and Tovshuur lute — alongside conventional metal arrangements, and employs throat singing (khoomei) and long-song (urtiin duu) vocal techniques in place of Western extreme metal vocals. After touring Europe and releasing early singles, the band signed with Napalm Records and announced their debut album Human Herds.
Cleveland's UvU are a genuinely strange proposition: an avant-garde, post-metal act that refuses to play by genre rules since their 2018 formation, blending heavy metal weight with art-damaged experimentation in ways that mark them as one of the more intellectually curious bands in the Ohio metal underground. The playful name belies the music's considerable ambition.
Long-running Valencian band active since 2003, evolving from heavy metal origins toward stoner and hard rock over their decade-plus career. Their extensive Spanish-language discography spanning ten releases from Diablo Blvd. through Santos & Diablos documents their stylistic journey across multiple subgenres.
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