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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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French symphonic metal band from Paris, formed in 2016. They layer orchestral grandeur over heavy metal from the French capital.
Vila Nova de Gaia-based thrash metal act active since 2021, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Portuguese filter.
Progressive metal outfit from Schio (Vicenza), formed in 2015. Their work incorporates odd time signatures, extended instrumental passages, and dynamic contrasts that elevate their sound beyond standard metal fare.
Stoner metal band from Chepstow on the Welsh border, active since 2017, with vocals sung rather than screamed and a stoner edge throughout. Their album The Wicked Resurrection delivers solid, heavy, and soulful heaviness that defies easy genre categorization.
Beneath the Massacre are a technical death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, formed in the summer of 2004, whose debut EP Evidence of Inequity (2005) and first full-length Mechanics of Dysfunction (2007) on Prosthetic Records established them as one of the most technically demanding acts in North American death metal. After Dystopia (2008) and Incongruous (2012), the band went largely dormant before returning with Fearmonger in early 2020 via Century Media Records. Their music is characterized by relentless precision, high tempos, and complex rhythmic displacement.
Slovenian doom/sludge outfit active since 2013, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Budapest-based technical death metal act active since 2021, weaving labyrinthine guitar work and shifting time signatures into their extreme metal framework. Their compositions demand both virtuosity and visceral impact, balancing cerebral complexity with gut-level heaviness.
Finnish melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Rovaniemi, formed in 2012. They deliver aggressive melodeath-thrash from the Arctic Circle capital of Finnish Lapland.
Solo death/gothic metal project from Guisborough in North Yorkshire, run by multi-instrumentalist Ian Lipthorpe since 1996. Across six releases spanning nearly three decades from Oakenshield through 2022's Legacy, the project weaves black, death, gothic, and melodic death metal into an evolving personal vision.
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