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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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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.
Finnish thrash/heavy metal band from Järvenpää, active since 1998. With over a quarter century of output, they are one of the most seasoned thrash acts in the Uusimaa region.
Death metal outfit from Huddinge, formed in 2019. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Varaždin-based black metal/hardcore act active since 2019, fusing the atmospheric hostility of black metal with hardcore punk's physical aggression and directness. Their compositions channel both traditions with equal conviction.
Stavanger-based black metal act active since 2019, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Norwegian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Black metal project from Bath, formed in 2021. Their debut Triumphant Decay delivers three tracks of dark, introspective black metal exploring themes of obscurity and finality.
Black metal band from the Altnau/Frauenfeld area of Switzerland, active since 2022. They bring cold, aggressive black metal from the Thurgau canton.
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