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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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New Jersey's Clamfight deal in swampy, heavy-as-sin sludge and stoner metal, built on massive downtuned riffs and slow-burning grooves. Their records carry the weight of a collapsing building and move at roughly the same pace.
Heavy metal band from Patras, Greece, active since 2013. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Peloponnese port city.
Symphonic melodic death metal band from Vaasa, Finland, formed in 2018. They merge melodic death metal aggression with symphonic orchestration from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Melodic black metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2016. They weave dark melodies through atmospheric black metal.
Death metal act from Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, formed in 2022. Clamp delivers concise, crushing death metal from Ireland's western seaboard.
Groove metal band from Lille, France, active since 2010. They deliver heavy, rhythm-driven grooves from the Nord capital.
Clan dos Mortos Cicatriz is a death-punk band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, blending raw black metal, death metal, and hardcore punk into what the underground has called "nekro-hardcore." The band released their debut album "Técnicas de Morte" in March 2025 via Sentient Ruin Laboratories, a 15-track, 25-minute record described as a grim manifesto drawing imagery from slums, prisons, morgues, and war zones.
Heavy metal band from Parma, formed in 2019. Clan X brings straightforward, riff-driven traditional metal to the Emilia-Romagna scene.
Melodic death metal band from Karstula, Finland, active since 2011. They craft melodic yet intense death metal from the rural Finnish heartland.
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