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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Spanish brutal death metal band from Sarrià de Ter near Girona, active since 1998. With over a quarter century of brutality, they are one of Catalonia's most seasoned death metal outfits.
Estonian brutal death metal band from Tallinn, formed in 2013. They deliver devastating brutal death metal from Estonia's capital city.
Black metal project from Lausanne, Switzerland, active since 2012. Named after the ancient Palmyrene sky god, they channel dark spiritual themes through Swiss black metal.
Austrian melodic death/black metal project channeling heathen rituals and environmental crisis themes through heavy riffage and sinister melodies. Their debut album Lighttaker pairs atmospheric textures with aggressive instrumentation.
Emerging in 2019 from Kostrzyn nad Odrą, this death metal act channels the genre's primal aggression through tight, riff-driven compositions. Their recordings carry the unmistakable weight of classic death metal.
The Hague-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2020, 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.
Kraków-based gothic black metal act active since 2025, threading dark romantic atmospheres and melancholic melody through a foundation of black metal aggression. Their compositions balance ethereal beauty with raw extremity.
Atmospheric raw black metal project from Todmorden in West Yorkshire, emerging in 2026. Releases like Yn Turas Doal and Finis Meus Certus employ cryptic Latin and Celtic language alongside wintry, decayed imagery, wrapped in an intentionally enigmatic and minimal presentation.
South Carolina black metal act Baasthyrian was active in the early 2010s, releasing a self-titled EP and the single Womb Evacuation before going silent — a brief but uncompromising entry in the region's underground black metal history.
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