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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Black/death metal band from Athens, Greece active since 2014. They deliver fierce, uncompromising extreme metal from the Hellenic underground.
Melodic death/doom metal act from Kurim, Czech Republic, weaving sorrowful melodies into crushing, slow-burning compositions since 2016. Their name captures the emotional descent at the heart of their fusion of melodic death metal and doom.
Montgomery, Illinois' Embrace the Day blend groove metal's rhythmic momentum with metalcore's structural intensity, carving out a sound built for large stages and pit-heavy crowds. Formed in 2013, they bring a hard-hitting directness to the Midwest's heavy music landscape.
Portland's Embrace the Kill sharpen thrash metal's traditional aggression against punk's stripped-down ethic, resulting in a lean and lethal sound. Since 2018, they've been one of the Pacific Northwest's harder-edged contributions to thrash's ongoing underground resurgence.
Kansas City's Embrace the Maddness arrived in 2018 with a straightforward death metal agenda and the Midwest's characteristic refusal to overcomplicate things. Rooted in the city's active underground, they deliver putrid, no-nonsense brutality.
Southern California's Embrace the Noose craft depressive black metal built around despair as texture, using harsh production and agonized vocals to evoke psychological isolation. Formed in 2018, they bring the DSBM tradition's bleakest impulses to the California underground.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Valenciennes in northern France, active since 2009. They deliver punishing extremity from the Nord region.
Black metal project from Finland active since 2013. They explore dark, atmospheric black metal from the Finnish underground.
Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this black metal act from Groningen traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2022, they've built a catalog that reflects Holland's dense concentration of metal talent.
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