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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Netherlands — doom metal and gothic metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2025, they deal in beauty-and-the-beast vocal contrasts over darkly atmospheric arrangements. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
San Diego's Empty Gods arrived in 2025 with a black metal vision stripped of ceremony, trading polish for raw nihilistic spite.
Chicago's Empty Grave have been thrashing the crossover circuit since 2016, turning the city's hardcore aggression loose on a hard-charging riff machine that owes equal debts to D.R.I. and early Metallica.
Richmond's Empty Hands collide hardcore's blunt-force urgency with sludge metal's grinding weight, a bruising combination forged in a city with deep roots in both traditions.
Part of Slovakia's modest but dedicated extreme metal community, this act channels death metal and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2019, based in Senica, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
When Empty Life emerged in 2018 from Minusinsk, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal — all raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Athens-based gothic metal and symphonic metal act, active since 2022 delivering lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power. Rooted in Greece's distinctively melodic extreme metal scene, uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Dallas death metal unit Empty Shell have been excavating brutality from the Texas underground since 2014, delivering pulverizing riff work with the no-frills directness the genre demands.
Cincinnati's Empty Skull traffic in black metal that feels like late-winter Ohio — bleak, unlit, and without apology, churning out misanthropic hostility since 2013.
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