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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Death-grind act from Włocławek, formed in 2017. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
A short-lived Houston thrash act from 1985 that quickly renamed themselves Crucial Surge after discovering a New York band already claimed the Battalion name.
An Atlanta black metal curiosity formed in 2023 by a then-13-year-old frontman, trafficking in occult, gore, and violence across two self-released demos.
Heavy metal, sludge, and grunge-inflected rock band from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, active since 2015. They bring a gritty, genre-crossing heaviness that draws on hard rock, sludge metal, and the murkier side of grunge.
Finnish thrash/heavy metal band from Vantaa, formed in 2024. They play aggressive thrash and heavy metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Death metal and hardcore band from Glasgow, emerging in 2024. Their 2024 release Whispers of the Blade and 2025 Unfest promo deliver tough, metallic hardcore with an aggressive, confrontational edge from the Scottish underground.
A black/death metal act from Columbus, Ohio active since 2018, with minimal documentation beyond their Metal Archives entry.
Black metal project from Gjøvik, emerging in 2017. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Norwegian origins.
Bergamo-based black metal act active in the underground, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Italian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
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