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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Volos-based A Diadem of Dead Stars craft atmospheric black metal of sweeping emotional depth, weaving melancholic tremolo melodies into vast, immersive soundscapes. Active since 2014, the project evokes the mystical landscapes of Thessaly through contemplative, layered compositions.
A Distant Sun has emanated atmospheric black and doom metal from Dublin since 2006, becoming one of Ireland's more enduring extreme metal projects. Their expansive sound evokes the grey skies and windswept coastlines of the Irish capital, merging vast atmospheric passages with crushing heaviness.
A Distorted Utopia delivers melodic death metal from Bedford since 2016, their oxymoronic name reflecting music that balances beauty and corruption. Their sound channels the tension between idealism and harsh reality.
Sacramento, California death metal project whose Latin name — meaning 'from the divine' — inverts the sacred through extreme music.
An experimental sludge metal band from the Vogtland region of Saxony — with members from Auerbach, Plauen, Zwickau, and Rempesgrün — A Document Says occupy a dark, dissonant corner of German heavy music. Their music combines the weight and feedback of sludge with avant-garde structural unpredictability.
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Massachusetts sludge metal and hardcore punk project. Spectral visions rendered in crushing heaviness from the Bay State.
A Dream of Poe creates gothic and doom metal from São Miguel in the Azores since 2006. Named after the master of macabre literature, they craft dark romanticism from the volcanic mid-Atlantic archipelago — one of the most remote origins for any European metal act.
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