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Funeral doom entity from Mór, formed in 2018. Their compositions unfold over vast stretches of time, building cavernous walls of distorted guitar that press down with the weight of a collapsing universe.
Burial Temple is a death metal band from Brasília, Brazil, whose music is centered on themes of necrolatry, funeral rites, and death worship. The band released their debut demo "Mortal Scum" in 2019, recorded live at Texas Studio in Brasília, and the recording was released in 2020 through underground label Cianeto Discos. They describe their sound as "an agonizing threnody of misery; a passionate ode to Death and its infinite ways."
German melodic death metal band from Papenburg in East Frisia, active since 2008. They bring nearly two decades of melodic death metal to the North Sea coast region.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Gällivare, active since 2025. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Atmospheric black metal entity from Athens, formed in 1994. Their sound envelops the listener in walls of reverb-drenched tremolo picking and shimmering ambient passages that dissolve the boundary between beauty and ferocity.
Spanish groove metal band from Madrid, formed in 2022. They lock into heavy grooves from the Spanish capital.
Finnish brutal death/black metal band from Saarijärvi, formed in 2023. They deliver burial-mound-dwelling extreme metal from central Finland.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Prato, active since 2026. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Thrash and groove metal band from Dagmersellen, Switzerland, active since 2018. They combine thrash metal's speed with groove metal's head-nodding rhythms.
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