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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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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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Oregon black metal act conjuring the dense, fog-drenched wilderness of the Pacific Northwest since 2016. Their music evokes the region's ancient, rain-soaked forests through layered tremolo passages and cold, misanthropic atmosphere.
Doom, groove, and sludge metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland formed in 2020. Their 2020 self-titled debut on Inverse Records features nine tracks blending atmospheric and death metal elements, garnering strong support from over 80 Bandcamp backers.
Laying down tracks since 2022, this Batley Black Metal and Melodic Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Depressive black metal project from Lyon, France launched in 2021. They explore bleak, sorrowful atmospheres from France's third-largest city.
Oryol's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal unit is among them — wielding technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Death metal act from Denmark, formed in 2022, whose paradoxically glorious name contrasts with the crushing brutality of their sound. Their approach channels Scandinavian death metal's ferocity through a distinctly Danish lens.
Banská Bystrica/Zvolen-based power metal act, active since 2010 delivering uplifting harmonic progressions and virtuosic instrumental interplay. Rooted in a scene with deep roots in the former Czechoslovak underground, anthemic choruses and virtuosic solos define their approach.
Rhode Island death/grind act from Charlestown, formed in 2022 with a clear intent to push both genres toward their most punishing extremes. Short songs, relentless blasting, and a riff vocabulary drawn from the ugliest corners of both traditions.
Death metal band from Chambery in the French Alps, formed in 2021. They deliver brutal death metal from the Savoie region.
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