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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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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.
A Utah depressive black metal project formed in 2012, Echo of Life leans hard into the genre's most inward-facing qualities — slow, anguished, and constructed for solitary listening.
Black metal project from Nantes, France active since 2015. They channel desolate black metal atmospheres from the Loire estuary.
Chicago's Echo Primordium emerged in 2022 at the intersection of black and death metal, channeling the city's extreme underground lineage into something that feels both ancient and immediately punishing.
Psychedelic doom band from Brussels, Belgium, whose debut album is a single forty-eight-minute composition born from two years dedicated to space and heavy music. Their sound merges stoner metal, doom, and space rock into an exhausting, amped-up journey through vast sonic landscapes.
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