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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Emerging from Maresso di Missaglia (Lecco), this Italian act forges Death Metal and Thrash Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Italian progressive metal act, active since 2016 delivering Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Rooted in a scene steeped in operatic grandeur and crushing heaviness, each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Caltanissetta, Italy — death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2020, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
When Ecatombe emerged in 2018 from Mori/Rovereto (Trento), they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal — all punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Black, doom, and heavy metal band from Petacciato in Molise, Italy formed in 2019. They blend multiple dark metal styles from one of Italy's least populated regions.
Ecca Vandal writes like an artist who sees genre boundaries as raw material. Her background in jazz, hip-hop, punk, soul, and electronic production comes through in songs that can pivot from clipped rap cadence to shouted punk release to elastic melody without losing their nerve. The self-titled debut made that range explicit: "Broke Days, Party Nights" leaned into bratty rhythm and big-beat energy, "Future Heroine" carried a bright rebellious lift, "Price of Living" brought in Dennis Lyxzen and Jason Aalon Butler for a politically charged punk eruption, and "Your Orbit" opened space for Sampa the Great over a more fluid groove. Later singles sharpened the heavier side of her writing, with "CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE" channeling skate-punk velocity, hard-edged guitars, and a positive-force chorus that hits with easycore immediacy. Vandal's voice is the anchor across those shifts: fast, percussive, sly, and forceful enough to cut through dense arrangements. Her music feels restless in a purposeful way, using punk's impatience, rap's timing, and pop's memorability to make songs that sound built for movement.
Metalcore band from Hanover, Germany, delivering aggressive, breakdown-driven compositions since 2018. Their Latin name, meaning "behold the beast," captures the ferocious intensity of their metalcore assault.
Named for the medical term for bruising, Powhatan, Virginia's Ecchymosis melds groove metal's midtempo churn with death metal's heavier inclinations, active since 2015 and apparently comfortable leaving marks.
Doom and heavy metal band from France formed in 2017, blending traditional heavy metal and epic doom in the vein of Candlemass and Tony Martin-era Black Sabbath. Their 2024 third album Ecclesia Militans on Aural Music explores medieval witch-hunting themes with sinister organ-driven atmospherics.
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