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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Saint Petersburg-based black metal, death metal, and deathcore act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2017, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Crafting their sound since 2012, this Sorokyne Black 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.
Richmond's Erik Larson channels the swampy grit of Southern metal into hard-rocking grooves that sit comfortably between the blues-drenched riff traditions of the mid-Atlantic and the outlaw spirit of the American South. Active since 2003, the project layers gravelly hooks over guitar work rooted in Southern rock's rawer, heavier side.
A keyboard virtuoso operating out of El Dorado Hills, California, Erik Norlander has spent nearly three decades crafting cinematic progressive metal that puts the synthesizer front and center alongside hard-edged guitars. His work sits at the intersection of symphonic grandeur and technical precision, drawing equally from classic prog and neoclassical tradition.
Black metal project from Athens, Greece active since 2009. They deliver raw black metal from the Greek capital.
Columbus, Ohio's Eris blends gothic atmosphere with death metal brutality, wrapping funereal melodic sensibility around downtuned heaviness in a way that feels both elegiac and aggressive. Formed in 2019, the project channels the goddess of discord into music that holds beauty and destruction in unresolved tension.
Black metal project from Poitiers, France active since 2009. They channel dreamlike black metal darkness from the Vienne region.
Modena, Italy — black metal and death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2002, they deal in raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
California's Erizo — Spanish for hedgehog — is anything but soft, weaponizing experimental grindcore and death metal into unpredictable, spiny sonic assaults that defy easy categorization. Active since 2008, the project treats genre as raw material to be shredded and reconfigured rather than adhered to.
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