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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Folk metal band from Paris, France formed in 2022. They weave folk melodies into heavy metal riffs from the French capital.
Sarasota's Erock built a dedicated online following by recording instrumental metal covers of film and game themes, wielding neoclassical shred technique across a catalog that spans everything from beloved anime soundtracks to Hollywood blockbusters. The project is as much a display of technical guitar craft as it is a tribute to the music that defined a generation of listeners.
Palatka, Florida's Erode drags groove metal's mid-tempo swagger through the murk of doom, producing music that moves like it's pushing through tar — deliberate, heavy, and relentless. Since 2010 the band has refined a sound built on suffocating riffs and a Southern sense of earned heaviness.
Santa Monica's Erode occupies a difficult-to-pin-down zone where sludge, doom, powerviolence, and abrasive noise collide without resolution. Their catalog resists easy genre placement, favoring texture and density over any single tradition.
Baltimore's Erode fuses the city's historically fertile hardcore scene with the brutality of death metal, producing music that carries the aggression of both traditions without compromising either. Since 2010, the band has drawn on the collision of these worlds to build something rawer and more direct than either genre alone.
Death metal act from Bochum in Germany's Ruhr industrial heartland, delivering heavy, riff-driven extremity since 2005. Their two-decade career reflects enduring commitment to the death metal craft from one of Germany's major cities.
Melodic death metal act from Rudolstadt in Thuringia, Germany, crafting harmonically rich compositions since 2016. Their name evokes decay and dissolution, driving a sound that balances melodic beauty with aggressive intensity.
Seattle's Eroder leans into the Pacific Northwest's affinity for heavy, hazy sounds, channeling stoner metal's fuzz-drenched patience into slowly combusting songs that reward the listener willing to sink into them. The band treats volume and repetition as tools for inducing a near-meditative state.
Raw black metal project from Germany, formed in 2022, channeling primitive, lo-fi darkness through a deliberately unpolished aesthetic. Their evocative name describes the stripping away of divine illumination through raw, confrontational black metal.
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