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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Moscow-based groove metal/metalcore outfit active since 2013, combining crushing syncopated riffs with metalcore's dynamic song structures and breakdown-heavy approach. Their sound bridges pit-ready heaviness with modern extreme metal aggression.
Be'lakor are a melodic and progressive death metal band from Melbourne, Australia, formed in 2004 and widely considered one of the defining acts in the contemporary melodic death metal scene outside Scandinavia. Self-releasing their debut The Frail Tide in 2007, they went on to produce a series of critically acclaimed albums—Stone's Reach, Of Breath and Bone, Vessels, and Coherence—each expanding their atmospheric, layered approach to the genre. They are currently signed to Napalm Records.
Death/thrash metal band from Bellinzona, Switzerland, active for over two decades since 2004. Their 2025 farewell album "Fooc Selvadic" closes twenty-plus years of existence, performed in regional Swiss dialect with lyrics rooted in their Ticinese heritage.
French stoner/sludge metal band from Normandy, formed in 2011. They deliver bear-fighting stoner-sludge from the Norman countryside.
German melodic death metal and metalcore band from Aalen, formed in 2013. They pair Gothenburg-style melodic death metal with metalcore breakdowns and emotional intensity.
German death metal band from Potsdam, formed in 2017. They deliver brutish, no-nonsense death metal from the Brandenburg underground.
French heavy metal and hard rock band from Peujard near Bordeaux, formed in 2024. They play classic heavy metal with hard rock energy from the Gironde region.
Belgian stoner, southern, and doom metal act, active since 2010. They blend the low-tuned heaviness of doom with stoner rock's hazy grooves and southern metal grit.
Doom metal outfit from Görbeháza, formed in 2000. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
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