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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Lizzanello (Lecce)-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 Italian filter.
Bristol-based deathcore act active since 2004, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Silesia-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2015. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
Since 2023, this Dutch heavy metal act has kept the flame of traditional metal burning from North Brabant. Their sound is built on the genre's bedrock: powerful riffs, commanding vocals, and unwavering commitment.
Metalcore band from Rouen in Normandy, formed in 2020, blending old-school death metal with stoner, thrash, and hardcore influences. Their EP No Peace No Redemption delivers six tracks of socially charged aggression across themes of overconsumption and systemic abuse.
Debrecen-based speed metal outfit active since 2022, delivering breakneck tempos and razor-sharp riffing that recalls the genre's 1980s heyday. Their relentless approach channels the raw velocity of early Exciter and Agent Steel.
Burning Tears was a gothic metal band from Santiago, Chile, whose sound drew from doom, black metal, and classical influences with flute as a featured instrument. The band released the album "Tales from a Disturbed Soul" in 2009, recorded and mixed by Franco Maestri at FM Estudio in Santiago, with tracks like "Snow Tears" and "Bride of Death" generating attention in the Chilean gothic metal scene.
Folk black metal band from Barysaw, Belarus, active since 2013. They interweave folk instrumentation and pagan themes with the ferocity of black metal.
Burning Torment is a death/black metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, active since 2014. The band has released two full-length albums — "Darkness Reborn" and "In the Eyes of the Impotent God" (2017) — along with a single, operating as an independent act with themes of death, destruction, anti-Christianity, and chaos.
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