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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
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Halo (2017)
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Arogath has been crafting gothic metal from the Provençal town of Orange since 2013, drawing from the region's Roman ruins and medieval heritage. Their decade-long presence reflects sustained commitment to atmospheric, darkly romantic metal.
Philadelphia death metal project whose 2021 EP MAMORÉ pairs German and Japanese linguistic elements with catalog-numbered releases. A deliberately unconventional approach to extreme music from the City of Brotherly Love.
Aroma de Saturno is a doom, sludge, and stoner metal band from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2018. They occupy the slower, heavier end of the Brazilian metal underground, releasing their self-titled EP and the track Ponto Sem Retorno through Bandcamp. Blumenau's German-immigrant heritage and industrial past give the city an unusual cultural backdrop for the kind of heavy, atmospheric metal Aroma de Saturno pursues.
Green Bay, Wisconsin death metal and progressive project with three releases since 2013. Their full-length Irkalla — named after the Babylonian underworld — channels ancient Mesopotamian mythology through technically accomplished extremity from Packerland.
Aros merges progressive groove and death metal with hardcore from Koziatyn in the Vinnytsia Region since 2018. From this Ukrainian railway-junction town, they bring multi-genre ambition to compositions that bridge metal and hardcore.
Around the Deep blends melodic death metal with metalcore from Turin since 2022, their oceanic name suggesting vast depths explored through the interplay of melody and aggression. Piedmont's thriving metal community provides a strong foundation for their genre-crossing approach.
Thessaloniki's Around the Fire craft a warm, earthy blend of doom, folk, and stoner metal that evokes communal gathering and ancient ritual. Since 2019, they've created music designed for shared experience, built on heavy grooves and folk-tinged melodies.
Arozza channels black metal from the Corsican capital of Ajaccio since 2020, bringing extreme music to Napoleon's birthplace on France's most isolated island. Their Mediterranean island origins lend genuine geographic uniqueness to their sound.
Arpenteur delivers heavy metal from Paris since 2020, their French name meaning "surveyor" reflecting a measured, methodical approach to the genre. The project maps the terrain of classic metal from the French capital.
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