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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Doom metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, formed in 2020. They bring crushing, slow-tempo heaviness to the northeast England doom scene.
Folk metal outfit from Kyiv, formed in 2020. Their sound integrates traditional melodic elements with metal's aggression, creating a festive yet powerful fusion.
German black/death metal band from Würzburg, formed in 2011. They combine black metal's atmospheric menace with death metal's relentless brutality.
French black metal project formed in 2022. They deliver dark black metal from the French underground.
Olsztyn-based grindcore outfit active since 2018, delivering ferocious blasts of fury that leave no room for conventional song structures. Their compositions compress maximum aggression into minimal running times.
Spanish thrash metal band from Ciudad Real, formed in 2013. They deliver relentless thrash metal from the plains of La Mancha.
Black metal band from southeast England, formed in 2014. Their debut album Burning Sermons delivers seven tracks of bleak, atmospheric blackened metal in just sixteen minutes, recorded at Son of Sun Studios and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Spanish heavy metal band from Leitza in the Basque Country, formed in 2020. They play traditional heavy metal sung in Basque from the mountainous Navarrese countryside.
Finnish raw black metal and shoegaze project formed in 2018. They blend raw black metal's intensity with shoegaze's ethereal textures for an atmospheric, genre-defying sound.
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