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Featured Album
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-speed metal project from Germany, emerging in 2026. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with the breakneck velocity of speed metal.
Boise death metal and hardcore crossover act bringing Pacific Northwest aggression to a genre-blurring extreme. Their sound is physically confrontational and direct, built for live punishment.
Ellsworth, Maine depressive black metal project drawing on the isolation and darkness of New England's remote north. Their music is bleak, introspective, and unrelenting in its emotional desolation.
Gothic and heavy metal band from Hamina, Finland, formed in 2016. They weave dark, emotional atmospheres into a heavy metal framework from the southeastern coast.
Black metal band from Olympia in the Peloponnese, Greece, active since 2011. They craft dark, atmospheric black metal from the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games.
Death metal act from Silesia, formed in 2023. Cry of the Nile — evoking Egyptian death metal traditions — brings Nile-inspired extremity to the Polish scene.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Azov near Rostov-on-Don, active since 2014. CryAgain delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Don River region.
Melodic death metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2018. They craft melodic yet intense death metal from the Finnish lake district.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2015. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the birthplace of heavy metal.
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