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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Kristiansand-based industrial metal act active since 2019, fusing mechanical rhythms and electronic textures with heavy guitar distortion. Their cold, precise sound channels the genre's tradition of merging human aggression with machine-like efficiency.
Thrash/industrial metal project from Dundee, Scotland, formed in 2020. They merge the aggression of thrash with the mechanical textures of industrial metal.
Bytom-based gothic metal act active since 2003, interweaving dark romantic atmospheres with heavy guitar work and dramatic vocal performances. Their sound draws from the tradition of Type O Negative and Paradise Lost, balancing heaviness with melancholic beauty.
Viseu-based industrial black metal project active since 2007, augmenting traditional black metal structures with mechanical rhythms and electronic textures. Their cold, mechanized approach creates an unsettling fusion of organic fury and synthetic precision.
Doom/sludge metal act from Athens, formed in 2020. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Spanish heavy/industrial/progressive metal band from Madrid, active since 1993. With over three decades of boundary-pushing output, they are one of Spain's most seasoned progressive-industrial metal acts.
Moscow-based industrial metal act active since 2012, fusing mechanical rhythms and electronic textures with heavy guitar distortion. Their cold, precise sound channels the genre's tradition of merging human aggression with machine-like efficiency.
Industrial metal project from Cheltenham, active since 2020. Their tracks including Wolves in Action and Liberation...Now! deliver socially conscious, politically engaged industrial metal.
Saint Petersburg-based industrial black metal project active since 2019, augmenting traditional black metal structures with mechanical rhythms and electronic textures. Their cold, mechanized approach creates an unsettling fusion of organic fury and synthetic precision.
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