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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Dance Devil Dance (Live at Sonic Temple) (2024)
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Dnipro-based black metal act, active since 2011 delivering venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most resilient metal scenes, the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
One of Los Angeles's longer-running black metal acts, Endless Blizzard has been active since 1997 — a rare instance of West Coast black metal with real longevity. Their approach favors raw, wintry atmospheres far removed from the LA sunshine.
Nebraska's Endless Bummer smears drone, sludge, and doom into a suffocating slow-motion dirge that feels as flat and relentless as the Great Plains themselves. Formed in 2013, their music is the sound of existential weight given a distortion pedal.
Gothic and progressive metal band from Lahti, Finland formed in 2023. They blend dark atmospherics with progressive complexity from southern Finland.
Wielding death metal, progressive metal, and thrash metal as their weapon, this Dutch outfit from Terneuzen has been refining their craft since 2017. Their sound hinges on odd-time signatures woven into surprisingly accessible songwriting, delivered with total devotion.
Gothic/doom metal band from Târnăveni in Transylvania, Romania formed in 2024. Their sound blends gothic metal's dark romanticism with doom metal's oppressive weight from the heart of Transylvania.
Pridnestrovie, Moldova — black metal and raw black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2023, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Savage Brutal Death Metal from Rio Grande Valley.
Los Angeles grindcore veterans who have been grinding since 1989, making them one of Southern California's earliest practitioners of the form. Decades of output and lineup changes have done nothing to blunt their commitment to maximum brevity and maximum violence.
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