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Old school death metal band from Graz, Austria, formed in 2023. Their debut album "In Fear We Trust" was recorded at Studio 66 and mixed by Peter Fritz, featuring six tracks of classic death metal including a cover of "California Dreamin'."
Szentes-based melodic black metal project active in the underground, tempering raw aggression with sweeping arrangements and harmonized guitar leads. Their approach balances the genre's inherent hostility with moments of dark grandeur.
Finnish heavy/thrash metal band from Vantaa, formed in 2019. They deliver all-seeing heavy and thrash metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Doom/gothic metal band from Brasília, Brazil, founded in late 2016 by vocalist-guitarist Felipe Stock alongside Pedro Paes on keyboards and Tama Oliveira on drums. Drawing heavily from Tiamat, Lake of Tears, My Dying Bride, and Saturnus, the band released their debut EP Cult of Solitude in 2018 — selling out all physical copies — and followed it with their dense nine-track full-length Our Darkest Home in 2021, which earned airplay on US radio stations.
Atmospheric death metal act from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2023. They explore death metal through an atmospheric lens from Switzerland's largest city.
Barnaul-based project merging black metal's atmospheric bleakness with doom metal's crushing deliberation, active since 2020. Their compositions stretch between glacial tempos and frenzied tremolo passages, creating a dynamic tension between despair and fury.
Behtria is a black metal band from Palpalá, in the Jujuy province of northwestern Argentina, fronted by vocalist Gaby and anchored by drummer Mariela. The duo are noted for their outspoken feminist stance within Argentina's metal scene, with Mariela helping to organize the Obnoxious Fest, a feminist metal festival in Palpalá, and both members regularly protesting against femicides in their city.
Brutal death metal act from Neunkirchen, Austria, formed in 2021, delivering German-language extreme metal. Their material pairs poetically titled tracks with the crushing, guttural intensity of brutal death metal.
Being As An Ocean formed in Alpine, California in 2011 and became known for a post-hardcore sound that uses heaviness as a frame for confession, patience, and spiritual searching. Dear G-d... introduced the band's blend of melodic hardcore, spoken-word passages, swelling post-rock guitars, and screamed emotional release, with Joel Quartuccio's vocals often sounding closer to testimony than conventional frontman performance. How We Both Wondrously Perish and the self-titled album broadened the formula, adding cleaner melodic hooks and more carefully shaped dynamics, while Waiting for Morning to Come, PROXY: An A.N.I.M.O. Story, and Death Can Wait pushed the band into more atmospheric and electronic spaces. Even as lineups shifted, the core remained recognizable: long builds, ringing guitars, abrupt eruptions, and lyrics that circle grief, faith, distance, and endurance. Being As An Ocean are heavy because of their crescendos and screams, but their real signature is emotional pacing. The songs often feel like letters becoming storms, with post-hardcore structure stretched toward catharsis rather than simple aggression one careful wave at a time.
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