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For All To Blame (2022)
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Ripping / Pulling / Tearing (2019)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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In existence since 2010, this Omsk Brutal Death Metal and 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.
Funeral doom metal solo project from Antwerp, Belgium, created by multi-instrumentalist Jens, who handles guitars, bass, vocals, and programming. Their releases "The Eye of the Storm" and "Journey to the Realm of Shadows" channel crushing, glacial doom with logo artwork by famed calligrapher Christophe Szpajdel.
Underground to the core, this black metal act from Bristol traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2016, they've built a catalog that reflects the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition.
Crushing Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore from Houston.
Willow Springs, Illinois death metal outfit Envy the Dead cut their path through the Chicago suburban underground with unadorned brutality and straight-for-the-throat riff delivery since 2020.
Wielding death metal, gothic metal, and melodic death metal as their weapon, this Italian outfit from Potenza has been refining their craft since 2019. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with ferocious dedication.
Laying down tracks since 2015, this Skopje Black Metal and Depressive Black Metal outfit delivers tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Their place within the Southern Balkans' growing metal voice speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels death metal and doom metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2020, based in Glasgow, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Enxöfre is a blackened heavy metal project from São Paulo, Brazil. The band released their debut album "Left Hand Path" in 2020 through Cianeto Records, a five-track effort blending black and heavy metal elements.
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