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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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Seattle's Ebony Pendant emerged in 2019 with a black metal sound that draws from the Pacific Northwest's deep well of gloom — raw-edged and ceremonial, belonging to a city with no shortage of darkness to mine.
Symphonic metal band from Annaberg-Buchholz in Saxony's Erzgebirge mountains, blending orchestral grandeur with heavy metal power since 2015. Their name evokes the dark elegance that characterizes their fusion of classical and metal elements.
Avant-garde black and gothic metal band from Ossett, England, formed in 1996 by Ophelius. Their discography spans from the 1999 debut On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive through 2011's In Swathes of Brooding Light, blending cinematic storytelling with blackened metal.
A product of Portugal's atmospheric and doom-laden metal tradition, this Évora-based death metal, folk metal, and melodic death metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2022, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Death metal and metalcore band from Leeds, England active since 2017. They bring intense, modern extreme metal from Yorkshire's largest city.
Brutal death metal band from La Boutigniere, France formed in 2016. They deliver punishing, guttural brutality from rural western France.
Firmly rooted in death metal, this Swedish actfrom Piteå delivers HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition without compromise. They've been at it since 2019, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Findlay, Ohio's Ebullism takes the technical death metal template and applies it with clinical precision, a 2020-formed act that favors surgical complexity over brute force, even when those two things end up sounding the same.
Ocala, Florida's Ebullition has been playing straightforward, no-nonsense death metal since 2015, carrying the torch for the Sunshine State's outsized contribution to the genre.
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