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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Atmospheric black metal band from Le Mans, France formed in 2020. They craft dark, immersive black metal from the Sarthe department.
Black/death metal act from Annaberg-Buchholz in Saxony's Erzgebirge mountains, Germany, delivering commanding extremity since 2021. Their name, meaning "eminence" in German, reflects the authoritative presence of their blackened death metal.
Italian power metal act formed in 1993, one of the country's longer-running entries in the European power metal tradition. Their sound carries the melodic intensity and soaring vocals characteristic of the Italian power metal school.
Progressive melodic death metal featuring Nick Brady and Ryan Cullins on guitars with influences ranging from technical death to melodic hooks. Self-released their debut EP in 2013.
This melodic thrash and power metal outfit threads together speed, hook, and epic construction, drawing from European and American metal traditions equally to build a sound that rewards both headbanging and close listening.
San Antonio's Emissary occupy the progressive melodic death metal space with authority, weaving clean and brutal dynamics through technically demanding arrangements that reflect South Texas's underappreciated tradition of ambitious metal.
Death/doom metal band from Santa Maria da Feira in the Aveiro district, Portugal formed in 2020. Their sound merges death metal aggression with doom metal's crushing pace from northern Portugal's medieval castle town.
A product of the birthplace of heavy metal itself, this Exeter-based progressive metal act channels Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Active since 2018, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Chicago's EMK have been at it since 2021, pursuing black metal's most uncompromising strains from within the Midwest's sprawling underground — cold, direct, and indifferent to polish.
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