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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black metal project from Patras, Greece launched in 2024. They channel nightmarish black metal from the Peloponnese.
Black, death, and deathcore band from Toul in Lorraine, France launched in 2024. They fuse multiple extreme metal styles from northeastern France.
Pasadena doom metal act Ephraim embrace the glacial tempos and crushing weight of the Southern California heavy music tradition, formed in 2021 in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains.
Muskegon, Michigan's Ephus craft atmospheric sludge metal soaked in the industrial melancholy of the Great Lakes shoreline, building dense walls of distortion and fog since 2007.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels folk metal with a focus on traditional folk melodies woven into heavy metal frameworks. Formed in 2022, based in Como, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Epic Power Metal / Metalcore out of Texas.
Theatrical symphonic extreme metal conceived by frontman Dennis Dorsett. Featured in the documentaries 'Heavy in Houston' and 'Heavier in Houston.' Have shared stages with Nile, Deicide, and Carach Angren.
Jackson, Michigan's Epic Divide launched in 2026 playing crossover thrash, a genre built on the collision of hardcore velocity and metal muscle. Short, fast, and confrontational, they carry on the tradition of bands that never let a song outstay its welcome.
Doom metal act from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2023, crafting crushing, slow-paced heaviness from Saxony's largest city. Their straightforward name captures the epic, weighted quality of their doom metal compositions.
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