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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Portland, Maine blackened doom metal act Ergi inhabit the bleak coastal winter of New England, drawing the name from Old Norse taboo and channeling that transgressive weight into slow, anguished heaviness.
Puyallup, Washington sludge/post-metal band Ergo I Exist philosophize through feedback and slow-burn intensity, turning Pacific Northwest gloom into expansive, riff-laden meditations on consciousness and weight.
Raleigh technical death metal band Ergodic borrow a term from mathematics — where every state is reachable from every other — and apply that logic to restless, ever-shifting compositions that never settle into predictability.
Brutal death metal outfit from Bilbao in the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2020. They unleash crushing extremity from the industrial heart of northern Spain.
Raw black metal project from France launched in 2022. They deliver lo-fi, uncompromising black metal in the rawest tradition.
Black metal project from France active since 2015. They bring cold, unrelenting black metal from the French underground.
Death/thrash metal band from Madrid, Spain formed in 2015, whose debut album Dokhma features eleven tracks of Spanish-language aggression. Songs like El Triunfo del Odio and Sodomizar la Fe showcase their dark, blasphemous intensity.
Ergus is a symphonic metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded by Erick Schnaider, Thuany Schnaider, and Elvis Rodrigues. The band released their debut album Insomnium in June 2020, a ten-track concept record exploring the themes of lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, and the thin boundary between dreams and reality.
Heavy metal band from San Esteban de Nogales and Alcubilla de Nogales in Leon province, Spain, formed in 2022. They represent the rural Spanish heavy metal underground.
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