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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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German black metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2023. They deliver ritualistic black metal offerings from Saxony's cultural capital.
Relentless Industrial Metal from Austin.
Burnt to Ashes is a Sludge/Doom Metal band from Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, formed in 2013 with the goal of creating complicated music that is easy to listen to. The band released their debut full-length "Smoke Trails" in 2016, followed by the EP "Poison & Hatred" in 2018, and revisited their debut with a full remix and remaster titled "Revisiting the Trails" in 2021.
Spanish death metal band from Asturias, formed in 2021. They deliver scorching death metal from the green coast of northern Spain.
Spanish crossover/thrash metal band from El Prat de Llobregat near Barcelona. They play fast crossover thrash from the Catalan industrial outskirts.
Dutch black metal/punk hybrid active since 2025, smashing together d-beat aggression with tremolo-picked ferocity. Their stripped-down, confrontational approach owes as much to Discharge as to Darkthrone.
Punishing brutal death metal from Athens, formed in 2014. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Forged in 2016 from Kharkiv, 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.
Heavy and groove metal band from Buchs, Switzerland, active since 2016. They pair classic heavy metal heft with groove metal's rhythmic weight.
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