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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Black-death metal band from Selb in Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2024. They channel darkness through a fusion of black and death metal from the Bavarian-Czech borderlands.
Buffalo death-doom and groove metal band pulling from multiple heavy subgenres to craft dense, lurching compositions. They sit at a bleak crossroads where different strains of heaviness collide.
Black metal band from Provins near Paris, France, active since 2013. They craft dark black metal from the medieval fortress town.
Providence sludge metal outfit dragging the weight of Rhode Island's underground through thick, distorted low-end murk. Their sound is slow, oppressive, and rooted in the abrasive American sludge tradition.
Death and thrash metal band from Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, formed in 2024. A newer force in the Belgian extreme metal underground, they combine the heaviness of death metal with the velocity of thrash.
Denver melodic death and power metal band blending soaring power metal ambition with the aggression of melodic death. Colorado's thriving metal scene provides fertile ground for their genre-straddling approach.
Heavy metal band from Torres Novas in central Portugal, active since 2012. Cruz de Ferro — Portuguese for 'iron cross' — delivers traditional metal from the Santarém district.
Cruzdiablo is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, built around vocalist Huija, guitarist Mariano, bassist Mow, and drummer Leo. The band released the album Megalodoom, a record praised for its crushing riffs, groove, and infectious melodic hooks, and appeared on multiple Argentine metal compilations in the 2000s.
Doom and stoner metal band from A Coruna, Spain, formed in 2019. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden doom with stoner grooves from the Galician coast.
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