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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels progressive metal and thrash metal with a focus on labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Formed in 2024, based in Moscow, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Englewood, Florida's End-Bane split the difference between groove metal's rhythmic churn and death metal's aggression, building songs around heavy riff cycles with a brutal edge. Formed in 2020, they're part of Florida's ever-fertile extreme metal ecosystem.
Formed in 2024, this Saint Petersburg Death 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.
California's Enda Vinera blend deathcore's modern heaviness with the tonal brutality of straight death metal, a pairing that feels natural for a scene where both styles thrive. Founded in 2023, the project is young but already moving with purpose.
Rome-based death metal and gothic metal act, active since 2021 delivering Type O Negative-school brooding grandeur with genuine emotional weight. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
New Jersey's Endall entered the heavy metal fray in 2025 with a traditional approach that prioritizes songcraft and riff integrity over genre experimentation. Part of the Garden State's long history of producing no-nonsense heavy metal.
When Endalok emerged in 2016 from Akureyri, 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.
Melodic death metal band from Braga in northern Portugal, active since 2012. Their sound carries Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from one of Portugal's most historically significant northern cities.
Grand Rapids power/progressive metal outfit blending soaring melodic vocals with technically ambitious arrangements since 2010. Their music balances the anthem-driven energy of classic power metal with the structural complexity of progressive songwriting.
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