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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Santa Barbara thrash outfit Civil Unrest operate in the classic mold of West Coast speed and aggression, driving hard through well-constructed riff patterns with a live-wire energy. California thrash tradition runs deep in their approach.
Falun/Borlänge heavy/power metal act formed in 2015, delivering anthemic compositions with classic metal grandeur from central Sweden's Dalarna region. Their triumphant sound carries the uplifting energy of the power metal tradition.
Power metal band from Trier, Germany, active since 2012. They deliver epic, melodic power metal with soaring vocals and anthemic energy from Germany's oldest city.
Bloomington, Indiana sludge metal project Civilized Worm distill the genre's essential combination of down-tuned heaviness and hypnotic repetition into slow-moving sonic punishment. Their music is deliberately ugly and quietly compelling.
Progressive metal band from London, formed in 2017. They craft intricate, dynamic compositions from the English capital.
Thrash metal band from Aalst, Belgium, active since 2015. Their track 'Eternal Nightmare' showcases aggressive thrash metal with thematic depth, referencing legal concepts of mens rea and actus reus.
CKY are a West Chester, Pennsylvania rock band whose riff-heavy sound became inseparable from early-2000s skate culture while retaining a stranger identity than many of their peers. Formed in 1998 from earlier musical projects involving Deron Miller, Chad I Ginsburg, and Jess Margera, the band developed a compact, instantly recognizable style: dry guitar tone, locked grooves, off-kilter melodies, and a mix of alternative metal, stoner rock, punk, and hard rock. Volume 1 and Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild made CKY cult favorites, helped by the visibility of skate videos and the CKY video series, but the songs survived beyond that context because the riffs were genuinely distinctive. An Answer Can Be Found, Carver City, and later material kept the band's identity moving through lineup changes and long gaps. CKY fit metal-adjacent and hard-rock scope through their guitar weight, groove focus, and alternative-metal edge. Their best tracks feel lean and weird at once, built from riffs that are simple enough to stick immediately but unusual enough to avoid standard post-grunge or nu-metal formulas. CKY remain a cult band because the sound is unmistakably theirs.
Black folk metal project from Barnaul in the Altai region, formed in 2021. Clactonian Haze blends pagan folk elements with black metal from the Siberian foothills.
Texas melodic death metal act Clad in Shadows fuse Gothenburg-influenced melodies with a heavier, more aggressive death metal foundation, crafting emotionally driven material that doesn't sacrifice brutality for hooks.
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