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Avant-garde tech-death trio channeling Gorguts and Deathspell Omega. Drummer Jason Roe is ex-Between the Buried and Me. Released on Willowtip and I, Voidhanger Records.
Brattleboro, Vermont's Barishi blended progressive and sludge metal with nature-themed imagery before their split, earning recognition through appearances on Season of Mist's 2016 sampler and leaving members to continue in the project Ordh.
Athens-based heavy/thrash metal outfit active since 2021, combining traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility with thrash's speed and aggression. Their sound occupies the hard-hitting middle ground between classic metal anthems and thrash metal fury.
Barizon are a stoner/doom metal band from Rio de Janeiro who released their debut full-length "Towards the Rising Sun" in 2014 through Monstro Discos, recorded at Estúdio Superfuzz. Described as eight sludgy stoner doom rippers packed with hallucinogenic heaviness, the album drew comparisons to Down, Red Fang, and Mastodon, placing the band among Rio's more prominent underground stoner acts. The five-piece features Alexandre "Beef" Barbosa on vocals alongside Eduardo Sodré and Gabriel Zander on guitars.
Groove metal and death 'n' roll band from Antwerp, Belgium, active since 2015. They combine groove metal's rhythmic crunch with the loose, rock-infected swagger of death 'n' roll.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Kharkiv, active since 2018. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
A Los Angeles-based power/thrash metal recording project helmed by Chris Rydo, Barking Spider features rotating guest musicians across its releases and has maintained an active presence in the underground since the early 2000s.
Barks of Apocalypse was an experimental death metal/grindcore one-man project from Catanduva, São Paulo, active 2021–2023. Created by Billy Grind — who also runs the underground label Podreira Records — the project replaced human vocals with the recorded barks of his three dogs, directly inspired by the US band Caninus; the 2021 full-length Canis Lupus Familiaris combined grinding death metal riffwork with this canine-vocal concept.
A raw black metal and dungeon synth project from Jonesboro, Georgia, Barksdale explores themes of nature, paganism, and anti-Christianity within the stripped-down aesthetic of the underground black metal tradition.
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