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San Francisco's Cult of the Cosmic Bong are a fully instrumental doom trio who trade in psychedelic weight, wringing hypnotic, heavy riffs from guitar, bass, and drums without ever reaching for a vocal hook. Their 2025 album The Relentless Engine of Creation distills their approach to creative, immersive, riff-centric music.
Los Angeles's Cult of the Damned carry the torch for classic power and speed metal in a city more often associated with death and black metal extremity. The band channels the high-energy, melodic aggression of the genre's golden era into a sound that is both propulsive and anthemic.
Heavy metal band from Malmö, active since 2011. Cult of the Fox delivers classic, riff-driven traditional metal from southern Sweden.
Black-death metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2016. They channel ritualistic darkness through extreme metal from Merseyside.
Doom metal act from Alingsås in western Sweden, active since 2013. Cult of the Headless Witch crafts occult-themed doom from the Västergötland countryside.
Denver's Cult of the Lost Cause are a fully instrumental post-metal quartet who sculpt dynamic, adventurously structured songs from frigid, metallic guitar tones and commanding volume shifts. Since 2011, they've drawn comparisons to Rosetta, ISIS, and Russian Circles while staking their own territory in the Denver underground.
Black metal project from Winterthur, Switzerland, formed in 2024. They explore the void through atmospheric and aggressive black metal compositions.
Death-groove act from Moscow, active since 2013. Cult of War delivers war-themed extreme metal with heavy rhythmic drive.
Black metal band from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, emerging in 2025. They channel lupine ferocity through raw black metal from the Rhine-Main metropolis.
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