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Black metal and speed metal act from Kaunas, Lithuania, formed in 2019. Christless channels raw, blasphemous aggression through a classic black-speed metal template.
Louisville black/death hybrid Christlier fuses the caustic atmosphere of black metal with death metal's brutality into a dense, unrelenting sound. Their music draws from Kentucky's historically fertile underground extreme metal community.
Cleveland doom and post-metal act Christmas submerges listeners in slow-moving walls of distortion and bleak atmospheric texture. Their music carries the weight of Ohio's rust belt surroundings, melding crushing heaviness with expansive sonic drift.
Funeral doom act from Norilsk, one of the world's most remote and polluted cities above the Arctic Circle, formed in 2019. Christmass channels the crushing despair of Arctic isolation through glacially slow funeral doom.
Melodic death metal band from Argos in the Peloponnese, Greece, formed in 2021. They craft melodic death metal from one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
Rooted in the rolling pampas of Rio Grande do Sul, Christopher Abel works at the seam where heavy metal, thrash, death, and black metal meet, then ties the whole bundle back to gaucho identity. The defining statement so far is 2020's nine-track Herança, an album whose very title — Portuguese for inheritance — reads as a manifesto. Tracks like Onde quero-queros cantam invoke the quero-quero, the lapwing that serves as the symbol bird of Rio Grande do Sul, while Anos de peleia e fome (years of struggle and hunger) and Versos ancestrais drag the region's history of frontier wars and rural hardship into riff form. Latin and English titles share space with the Portuguese ones — Tempus edax rerum, It's all that remains, Set me free — giving the record a borderless, almost ceremonial sweep without losing its sense of place. Stylistically, Abel refuses to settle into one tribe of extreme metal; passages of NWOBHM-flavored melody bleed into thrash gallops, then into colder, tremolo-driven blackened sections, with death metal weight in the low end. That genre-fluid approach situates him alongside the broader Brazilian extreme-metal lineage that runs from Sepultura and Sarcofago through more recent gaucho-scene projects, but the specifically southern, rural framing — language, imagery, place-names — sets the project apart from the Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte centers that have historically dominated the country's metal narrative. Self-released on Bandcamp, Herança plays less like a debut from a one-off solo project and more like a personal archive of the South, set to amplifiers. For listeners who care about regional voices inside extreme metal, Christopher Abel is one of the more interesting recent arguments that Rio Grande do Sul has its own story to tell, in its own dialect.
Christopher Bowes and His Plate of Beans is the deliberately absurdist solo side project of Christopher Bowes, the keyboardist and primary songwriter of pirate metal band Alestorm and symphonic metal act Gloryhammer. Launched in 2018, the project produced a self-titled debut featuring five tracks of synth-driven electropunk novelty music, with song titles including Medical Emergency and Transcendental Bean Exploration. The project functions as a comedic outlet wholly separate from Bowes' main bands.
Sunnyside, Washington musician Christopher Vizcarra works in the intersection of neoclassical and power metal, weaving technically proficient guitar work with orchestral sensibility. His compositions lean on melodic grandeur and the kind of disciplined craft that defines the neoclassical metal tradition.
Stoner metal band from Genoa, active since 2012. Christopher Walken — cheekily named after the Hollywood actor — delivers heavy, fuzzed-out stoner grooves from the Ligurian coast.
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