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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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Oslo-based thrash metal act active since 2016, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Norwegian filter.
French industrial black metal band from Villard-de-Lans in the Alps, formed in 2017. They merge industrial sonic warfare with black metal intensity from the Vercors mountain plateau.
Rivolta d'Adda (Cremona)-based industrial black metal project active since 2016, 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.
English industrial-tinged extreme metal project fusing black, death, and gothic metal with martial industrial textures across releases like Songs For The Cruel Aeon and Glimpse of the Aeon. Their sound evokes apocalyptic grandeur through layered electronic atmospherics and crushing metallic weight.
Industrial, doom, and thrash metal hybrid from Zurich, Switzerland, active since 2014. They forge an unusual fusion of industrial harshness, doom's weight, and thrash metal's aggression.
French atmospheric and avant-garde black metal band from Mondeville, active since 1995. With three decades of boundary-pushing output spanning atmospheric black metal, industrial metal, and dark ambient, they are one of the most influential and innovative extreme metal acts in France and beyond.
Finnish black metal and industrial project formed in 2020. They merge black metal's rawness with industrial's mechanical pulse.
Crossover thrash outfit from Wallington, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the spirit of 1980s crossover, fusing hardcore punk's immediacy with thrash metal's technical edge.
Stoner doom act from Utrecht, formed in 1998. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
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