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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Jalapena is a metal band from Albacete, Spain, formed with a quirky and irreverent attitude toward extreme music. Their releases including the Jalapena EP and VIRUS deliver aggressive metal with a distinctive personality that sets them apart in the Spanish underground.
Jarda is a heavy metal ensemble from Porto, Portugal, blending stoner rock, thrash, and psychedelic influences with a distinctive shared vocal approach where all members contribute vocals in different registers. Their album Rockaine (2022), recorded at Mindset Studios and influenced by Crisix, Kyuss, and Orange Goblin, delivers five tracks of eclectic Portuguese heavy rock.
Jackson-based Jason Caldwell straddles the line between thrash, power, and Southern metal with ease, a versatile approach that draws from the melodic bite of power metal and the rootsy grit of Southern-inflected heavy music.
New Haven, Connecticut's Jasta — the solo project of Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta — channels his hardcore roots into a harder-edged metalcore and thrash crossover format, delivering the kind of aggressive, anthemic material that has long made him a figurehead of the American heavy underground.
Jatere is a thrash/death metal band formed in Asunción, Paraguay in 2025. They released their debut demo "La muerte no da risa" in December 2025, a three-track release with Spanish-language titles that showcases their aggressive crossover of thrash and death metal influences.
Jawad is a metal and heavy music artist from France who blends aggressive instrumentation with dark atmospheric textures. Their work contributes to the vibrant French underground heavy music scene with compositions that cross genre boundaries.
Jeanne Dark is a post-punk, shoegaze, industrial, and doom project from Zurich, Switzerland (listed under Hungary), that emerged in 2024 using raw analog technology and mystical sounds. Their debut singles including Guillotine and Der Apparat explore themes of mental anguish through atmospheric, genre-blending dark alternative music inspired by the historical French freedom fighter.
Jebes Ime is a Croatian heavy band from Dakovo that blends blues, crust, grindcore, hardcore, sludge, and stoner rock into an aggressive hybrid. Their album Dakovo je umiruca kurva (2012) was recorded at Studio Pecina, delivering four tracks of diverse, genre-crossing heaviness.
Jechane is a Polish metal band from Tuczno whose debut album War in Your Head (2016) delivers thrash, death, and progressive metal with heavy growl vocals and thrashy guitars. Recorded at Szafa Records Studio, the album features thirteen tracks exploring themes of mental conflict and psychological darkness.
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