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German progressive and technical deathcore band from Freilassing, formed in 2018. They push deathcore into progressive and technical territory with complex song structures and precision musicianship.
Forged in 2022 from Athens, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
German doom/black metal band from Darmstadt, formed in 2020. They merge doom metal's crushing slow tempos with black metal's atmospheric malevolence.
bed are a Tokyo band that emerged in 2022 with a stripped-down, elusive presence and a sound that channels post-punk tension through Japanese indie rock minimalism. Their music favors repetition, dry rhythmic motion, and understated guitar figures over obvious rock spectacle, creating songs that feel nocturnal, nervous, and sharply controlled. Tracks such as "Kare Wa," "Girl," and "mother ship" suggest a band interested in atmosphere as much as hooks: vocals sit inside the groove rather than above it, while bass and drums carry much of the forward pressure. The project's phrase "Music for sleeping well" hints at its ambiguous mood, but the songs are not passive or sleepy; they use restraint to build unease, momentum, and cool distance. bed's appeal comes from that balance between anonymity and immediacy. The band sounds connected to post-punk's clipped economy and underground danceability, but the presentation feels contemporary, Tokyo-centered, and resistant to easy explanation. Their small catalog has made them a point of curiosity within Japan's independent rock landscape.
Ferocious Crossover / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Czech thrash/death metal and metalcore act from Rokycany, formed in 2018. They bring a volatile mix of thrash and death metal intensity with metalcore breakdowns.
Welsh sludge/post-metal project founded in 2022 by multi-instrumentalist Robert Horsfall. Their 2023 debut Beddgelert is a single forty-four-minute track serving as a soundtrack to a thirteenth-century Welsh folk tale about the loyal dog Gelert, blending monolithic heaviness with hallucinatory calm, sung partly in Welsh.
Bedemon was an American doom metal project active in recordings from 1973, formed by Pentagram guitarist Randy Palmer alongside bandmates Bobby Liebling and Geof O'Keefe. Never a performing band, the project existed solely in home recordings that captured an early and raw form of what would become doom metal, all recorded on home equipment and never intended for public release. The recordings were finally collected and issued as Child of Darkness: From the Original Master Tapes in 2004; a second album, Symphony of Shadows, was completed posthumously after Palmer's death in August 2002.
German avant-garde death metal band from Dortmund, formed in 2020. They take death metal into unconventional territory with avant-garde arrangements and experimental compositions.
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