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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Allentown, Pennsylvania's B.O.T. stepped into the thrash underground in 2023, carrying on the Lehigh Valley's working-class metal tradition with the no-frills riff-forward intensity the genre demands.
French deathcore band from Brizambourg, active since 1993. With over three decades of history, they are one of France's most long-standing deathcore acts.
German doom metal band from Hamburg, active since 2000. With over two decades of output, they have been a steady presence in Hamburg's doom metal scene, crafting slow, heavy compositions.
Daytona Beach heavy metal outfit B.T. Saints has been active since 2016, drawing on Florida's deep tradition of hard-hitting metal to deliver a straightforward and unapologetically earnest take on the genre.
Wilmington, North Carolina's Baag traffics in the slow-moving punishment of doom and sludge metal, a project that has been carving out a heavy, feedback-drenched presence in the Southeast underground since 2018.
French black metal band active since 2008. They deliver diabolic black metal from the French underground.
Baalberith was a raw black metal band from São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, active from around 2002 and eventually split up. The band recorded two demos — Porco Destronado (2005) and Escalada Triunfante (2007) — before releasing Black Metal Militia on CD-R through Depressive Illusions Records in 2013. Their lyrical themes centered on blasphemy, hate, and profanity in the uncompromising tradition of South American black metal.
German black metal band from Hamburg, formed in 2022. They channel raw black metal fury from one of Germany's largest port cities.
German black/death metal band from Lüneburg, formed in 2009. They forge a hostile blend of black metal atmosphere with death metal's brutal edge.
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