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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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New York City's Ephemera bend avant-garde experimentation into black metal's skeletal framework, producing disorienting, boundary-pushing music from the Brooklyn underground since 2018.
Southern Florida death metal act Ephemeral traffic in suffocating brutality with the sweltering intensity the Sunshine State's underground is known for, active since 2019.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Based in Bergamo, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
The Russian city of Moscow serves as headquarters for this death metal, doom metal, and melodic death metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Bristow, Virginia's Ephemeral Sun have been crafting layered, introspective progressive metal since 2005, drawing on complex song structures and dynamic shifts rooted in the mid-Atlantic prog tradition.
Black metal, death metal, folk metal, and melodic death metal project from Finland, active since 2020. They weave folk elements into extreme metal with a genre-crossing approach.
Death metal band from Galați in eastern Romania, active since 2017. Their sound delivers death metal brutality from the major port city on the Danube.
Death/doom metal band from Espoo, Finland active since 2016. They fuse crushing doom weight with death metal aggression from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Progressive metal quartet from Caceres, Spain formed in 2019, featuring vocalist Joaquin Alviz and guitarist Gerardo Perez. Their debut EP Zeroth showcases four tracks of progressive metal recorded at MV Studio in summer 2019.
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