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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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Prekmurje-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2012, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
German heavy metal band from Renningen, formed in 2011. They deliver straightforward, riff-driven traditional heavy metal with a workmanlike ethic.
Lazio / Abruzzo / Marche (early); Lazio/Abruzzo-based raw black metal project active since 2016, burying its compositions beneath layers of caustic distortion and lo-fi haze. Their uncompromising approach to production channels the most primitive currents of the second wave.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Castellamonte (Turin), active since 2015. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
German sludge metal and crust punk band from Bamberg, formed in 2019. They merge sludge metal's crushing low-end with crust punk's raw, d-beat-fueled fury.
Death metal band from Stabroek, Belgium, active since 2016. They bring relentless death metal ferocity from Belgium's Antwerp province underground.
Battalion is a traditional heavy metal band from Itajaí, Santa Catarina, with roots going back to 2005. The trio — built around vocalist/guitarist Marcelo and drummer Fabiano — has released two studio albums, Empire of Dead (2013) and Bleeding Till Death (2020), working in the straightforward riff-driven style of classic heavy metal.
Hull sludge/stoner metal band formed in 2010, purveyors of dirt-ridden Humber sludge fronted by vocalist Phil Wilkinson. Five albums deep from Nothing to Lose through King of a Dead World, they pair razor-sharp guttural vocals with infectious, groove-laden riffs and commentary on environmental collapse.
Since 2018, this Dutch thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Rotterdam. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
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