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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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The Swedish city of Malmö serves as headquarters for this progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
One of Portland, Maine's longer-running heavy acts, Eastern Spell has been casting their particular brand of sludge-doom since 2013 — dense, slow-burning songs where the misery accumulates like snowpack.
Post-metal band from Tomsk in western Siberia, Russia formed in 2021. Their sound channels atmospheric post-metal from one of Siberia's most important university cities.
Black metal, doom, and stoner metal band from Glasgow, Scotland active since 2013. They deliver a hazy blend of blackened doom and stoner heaviness from Scotland's largest city.
The name says it all and nothing at once: Ventura, California's Easy Death makes stoner doom that's anything but painless, trading in heavy psych riffs and the kind of lumbering grooves that make time feel elastic.
Power metal band from Madrid, Spain, delivering anthemic, high-energy compositions since 2015. Their name evokes freedom and adventure, capturing the spirit of their riff-driven power metal.
Founded in 2024, Easy Way is a depressive atmospheric black metal project with roots in American DSBM tradition — cold, interior, and built from the kind of suffering that doesn't announce itself loudly.
New York's Eat Lead formed in 2019 to play the kind of crossover thrash that sounds like it was raised on hardcore matinees and late-night thrash tapes — fast, mean, and allergic to subtlety.
Altivole (Treviso)'s metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this metalcore and thrash metal unit is among them — wielding palm-muted barrages and speed-freak intensity. Their riffs arrive at terminal velocity with zero tolerance for filler.
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