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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Melodic death/thrash metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, active since 2017. They bring melodic aggression from Switzerland's cosmopolitan French-speaking metropolis.
Heavy/power/thrash metal band from Vannes in Brittany, formed in 2024. Their debut Waiting for the End is an eleven-track album of groove-inflected death-thrash with tracks like Prophet's Razor Blade and Trip In Hell spanning over fifty minutes of relentless heaviness.
Drawing from the contemplative side of black metal, this Swedish project channels Söderhamn's spirit into sweeping, atmosphere-laden compositions. Since 2017, their recordings balance raw aggression with passages of fragile, melancholic beauty.
Spanish heavy/power metal band from Cerdanyola del Vallès near Barcelona, formed in 2015. They forge bronze-cast heavy and power metal from the Catalan suburbs.
Spanish groove metal and metalcore band from Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country, formed in 2026. They represent the newest wave of Basque metal.
Spanish heavy metal band from Alicante, formed in 2023. They play classic heavy metal from the sun-drenched Mediterranean coast.
Groove metal outfit from Zhytomyr, formed in 2018. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
Landgraaf-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2025, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Bydgoszcz-based funeral doom project active since 2018, stretching compositions to their absolute breaking point through glacial tempos and overwhelming sonic density. Their music moves with the slow inevitability of geological time.
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