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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
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Halo (2017)
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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.
Ecclesia is a heavy/doom-influenced power metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, active since 2017. The band released the EP "Witchfinding Metal of Doom" in 2017 and the full-length debut "De Ecclesiæ Universalis" in 2020, followed by "Ecclesia Militans" in 2024. Their sound draws on the classic doom and heavy metal traditions of Candlemass and Black Sabbath while incorporating epic, medieval lyrical themes centered on the Inquisition.
Kansas City's Ecdysis takes its name from the molting process, and the band's melodic death metal reflects that sense of transformation — technically grounded, melodically ambitious, and active since 2017.
Fort Wayne, Indiana's Ecferus has been one of the Midwest's more prolific black metal solo acts since 2015, churning out a torrent of raw, philosophically dense material that rewards patience from listeners willing to go deep.
On the warpath since 2014, this Kherson Black Metal and Death Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Death, progressive, and thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece active since 2006. Named after the mythological monster, they deliver technically proficient extreme metal from Greece's second city.
Denver's Echo has been doing black metal at altitude since 2010, a long-running Colorado act whose sound carries the cold of mountain winters and the vastness of high-desert night.
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