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!T.O.O.H.! is a Czech progressive death metal and grindcore duo formed in 1990 in Libice nad Cidlinou under the name Devastator, later changing their name in 1993. The two-piece outfit — consisting of Schizoid on drums and vocals and Humanoid on bass, guitars, and programming — blends death metal, grindcore, and folk-tinged progressive elements into a singular, difficult-to-classify sound. Their discography spans six albums, from the 1999 debut From Higher Will through the politically-charged Svoboda slova in 2020, with lyrics evolving from early gore themes toward social and political commentary. They remain one of the more idiosyncratic acts to emerge from the Czech extreme metal underground.
Los Angeles thrash metal project whose dollar-sign-adorned name takes aim at capitalism from the heart of America's entertainment industry. LA thrash with an anti-consumerist edge.
$lutrot is a slam and brutal death metal project with members spread across Nevada, North Carolina, and Texas. The band emerged in 2018 with a split alongside Nephrectomy before dropping their debut full-length "$LAUGHTERED $LUT $TORIES" the following year, delivering a short but savage burst of guttural slam brutality.
'77 is a Catalan hard rock band formed in Barcelona in 2006 by brothers Armand and LG Valeta, drawing heavily from classic 1970s rock and NWOBHM traditions. The band signed to Listenable Records and later Century Media, releasing five studio albums between 2009 and 2018, including 21st Century Rock, High Decibels, and Nothing's Gonna Stop Us. Their sound pairs driving riffs with melodic hooks in the tradition of AC/DC and Thin Lizzy, earning them a dedicated audience across Europe and Japan.
'Big Jim' Shively is a one-man doom and psychedelic rock project from Nashville, Tennessee. Active since the early 1990s under the CRANK moniker, the project has amassed a sprawling catalog of recordings spanning cassette-era demos to full-lengths, blending heavy doom riffs with lysergic psychedelic wandering across more than two decades of output.
'Iisnááhí is a Diné (Navajo) black metal project from Albuquerque, New Mexico, blending raw black metal with Indigenous language, themes, and cultural identity. Founded in 2018, the project has been prolific, releasing four full-lengths and multiple EPs including 'Wolves of a Dead Generation' and 'Reservation Kills,' with lyrics delivered in both Diné Bizaad and English. The music confronts colonialism, cultural erasure, and life on the reservation through the lens of furious, atmospheric black metal.
(0) is a Danish extreme metal band operating in the space between death metal, doom metal, and post-metal. Signed to Napalm Records, the band layers crushing low-end riffs with atmospheric, expansive passages characteristic of the post-metal tradition. Their approach places them within a lineage of Scandinavian bands pushing the boundaries between heaviness and texture.
(god-rot) is a progressive death metal and grindcore outfit from Rochester, New York. The band made their mark with their 2022 self-titled full-length, an eight-track album that fuses the technical ambition of progressive death metal with the frenzied velocity of grindcore.
(Ohlm) is a progressive doom metal band from Louisville, Kentucky. Since their 2013 debut EP "The Synaptic Dissent," the band has built a catalog of five releases that push doom metal into expansive, cerebral territory, culminating in their 2024 EP "the Division."
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