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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Thrash metal outfit from Moscow (early); Prague, formed in 2023. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Spanish death/black metal band from Valencia, formed in 2023. They forge bestial death/black metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Finnish black/death metal project formed in 2025. They channel bestial siege-warfare black/death metal.
Krasnodar-based black metal act active since 2017, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Russian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
French thrash metal band from the Dreux-Saint-Éliph area, formed in 2015. They channel bestial thrash metal from the Eure-et-Loir countryside.
Kadıköy-based thrash metal act active since 2024, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Turkish filter.
Czech death metal band from Moravský Písek, founded in 2007, featuring vocalist Jane Taylor alongside a dual-guitar attack. Their three studio albums -- Pictures, Crowned in Dark, and Human Kind -- showcase an evolving take on dark, heavy death metal.
Uncompromising death metal from Bari, active since 2015. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
German black/death metal band from Marburg, formed in 2018. They wage blackened death metal warfare from the Hessian university town.
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