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Empire of Souls is a black metal band from Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, with roots going back to 1995. The band draws on themes of occultism and Satanism, and released their debut full-length Revenge Circle through Nocturnal Age Records in 2003, later returning to activity after a hiatus with a 2015 single Si Vis Pacem, Para Belum.
Drawing from Athens's musical fabric, this Greek act forges Black Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Detroit's Empire of the Wicked bring death metal to the Motor City's grim industrial backdrop, a new arrival whose name alone signals a zero-compromise approach to the genre's darkest traditions.
In existence since 2019, this Moscow Death Metal and Thrash Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Minneapolis outfit Empires have been dragging doom and sludge through post-metal's murky corridors since 2008, building suffocating walls of slow-motion riff work layered with atmospheric texture.
Thrash metal act from Hamburg, Germany, delivering relentless, high-speed aggression since 2014. Their name evokes the collapse of power, driving a sound built on furious riffing and breakneck tempos.
Death metal, progressive metal, speed metal, and thrash band from Paris, France launched in 2024. They deliver a technically ambitious, multi-genre extreme metal assault from the French capital.
The Swedish city of Sundsvall serves as headquarters for this death metal and technical death metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Employed To Serve formed in Woking in 2011 and grew from abrasive underground hardcore into one of the United Kingdom's most important modern heavy bands. Early releases such as Greyer Than You Remember and The Warmth of a Dying Sun established a violent, chaotic sound built around Justine Jones's caustic vocals and Sammy Urwin's dense guitar writing. Eternal Forward Motion widened the band's reach without sacrificing disgust or urgency, while Conquering pushed the riffs into a more openly metal direction, using groove, thrash muscle, and anthemic choruses to make the songs larger. Later material kept that expansion moving while retaining the band's core contempt for stagnation, burnout, and social pressure. Employed To Serve are firmly metal and hardcore at once: breakdowns, blast-adjacent momentum, sludge weight, and shouted hooks are all part of the vocabulary. Their connection to Church Road Records also matters, because the band helped shape a wider ecosystem for contemporary heavy music. Their best work feels angry but not careless, turning frustration into disciplined impact and making growth sound like escalation rather than compromise.
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