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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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NWOBHM-influenced heavy metal band from Haslingden in Lancashire, formed in 2019. They channel the spirit of the original New Wave of British Heavy Metal through classic riffing and hard rock energy.
Finnish heavy/thrash metal band from Tampere, formed in 2016. They deliver aggressive heavy and thrash metal from Finland's third-largest city.
Saratov-based heavy/thrash metal outfit active since 2015, combining traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility with thrash's speed and aggression. Their sound occupies the hard-hitting middle ground between classic metal anthems and thrash metal fury.
Forged in 2022 from Istanbul, 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.
Badtrip Surfdeath is an instrumental power trio from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2008 and coined the term 'surfdeath' to describe their collision of hardcore, grind blasts, black metal riffs, and psychedelic textures. The trio of Rodrigo Chã (guitar), Manéu Junqueira (bass), and Marcus Dentão (drums) released their self-titled debut in 2011 followed by Badtrip Surfdeath II in 2013, both recorded in São Paulo. Their entirely wordless approach lets the genre-blurring density of the music speak for itself.
Punishing Death Metal out of Texas.
Bael was a black metal band from Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2024 and short-lived. Emerging from the Greater São Paulo underground, the band pursued the raw and nihilistic black metal aesthetic before splitting up the same year they were founded. Their brief existence places them within the dense web of São Paulo-area black metal acts working in the underground tradition.
One of Dallas's longest-running black metal acts, Bael Occultus has pursued a raw and warlike sound rooted in pagan and martial themes since 1997.
Blackened death metal band from Peterborough, formed in 2024, prioritizing memorable riffs and a meaty old-school sound over technical flash. Their 2025 debut EP Empowered By Hatred delivers seven tracks of raw, groove-laced extremity with thrash influences and black metal vocals.
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