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Solo thrash/black metal project from Port Talbot, created by Zaraza in 2022 under the banner of egregious blood rituals. The debut album My Revenge blends raw lo-fi black metal with blackened punk and crust, recorded and performed entirely by one person.
Benümb were a grindcore and powerviolence band from the San Francisco Bay Area, formed in 1994 in Millbrae, California. Their debut full-length Soul of the Martyr (1998) was a chaotic and highly regarded document of the West Coast powerviolence scene, and the band maintained their intensity through Withering Strands of Hope (2000) and By Means of Upheaval (2003) on Relapse Records before disbanding in 2006. Several members went on to form Agenda of Swine.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Poland, active since 2012. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Beraza Chainsaw Massacre are a death metal band from Berazategui, on the southern outskirts of Greater Buenos Aires, active since 2017. They released their album Premeditación y alevosía in October 2018, announcing themselves as a brutally focused act in the Buenos Aires underground death metal scene. The band continues to release music independently through their Bandcamp page.
German death metal band from Arnsberg, active since 2001. With over two decades of output, they are one of the Sauerland region's longest-running death metal acts.
Black metal project from Stoke-on-Trent, active since 2013. They channel atmospheric darkness and bleakness through raw, uncompromising black metal from the English Midlands underground.
Thessaloniki-based sludge/post-metal outfit active since 2018, building dynamic compositions that oscillate between abrasive sludge riffing and atmospheric expanses. Their music trades in tension and release, alternating quiet passages with crushing walls of distortion.
German heavy metal band from Geislingen, formed in 2024. They play traditional heavy metal with fresh energy from the Swabian Alb region.
Black metal project from Stockholm, emerging in 2017. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Swedish origins.
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