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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Forged in 2015 from Apatin, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Finnish avant-garde/sludge/post-metal band from Turku, formed in 2020. They push metal boundaries through an experimental fusion of sludge, post-metal, and avant-garde elements.
Finnish death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Tampere, active since 2008. With nearly two decades of friendship-forged extremity, they deliver death-grind with tongue-in-cheek camaraderie.
Grindcore act from Lisbon, formed in 2019. Their music exists in a state of perpetual detonation, packing blast beats and screamed vocals into compositions that rarely exceed the two-minute mark.
Besta Fera is a blackened death metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, formed in 2007. The band released a split EP with Arma Laranja featuring tracks such as "Projétil" and "Caminhos Cinzentos," and maintains an active presence in the underground extreme metal scene of northeastern Brazil.
Savage Black / Death Metal from Laredo.
Spanish heavy metal band from Oviedo in Asturias, formed in 2019. They play classic heavy metal from the green, mountainous north of Spain.
Bestial 666 is a black metal band from Goiânia, Brazil, with Satanic lyrical themes. The band is listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum and has since split up, leaving a short-lived but documented presence in the Brazilian underground black metal scene.
Two-man black/death metal war machine from Glasgow, formed in 2025. Their releases War Charge of the Infernal Cabal and Comatose Mutilation deliver extreme, visceral aggression from the Scottish underground.
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