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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Sicily, Italy — atmospheric black metal and black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2023, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Practitioners of death metal, this Swedish outfit from Umeå has been refining their craft since 2010. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with absolute focus.
Espancando Cristo is a grindcore and crust punk band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, formed in 2013 and known for blasphemous and satirical lyrical content. The band released their debut demo "Jesus Pop Star" in 2014, a 17-track recording featuring original compositions alongside covers of Magrudergrind and Industrial Holocaust. They followed up with the release "CAOS!" in 2017 and returned to activity in 2025 after a hiatus.
Black metal and folk metal project from Casserres in Catalonia, Spain, launched in 2023. Their releases include the demo Entre Foscors and Fredes Nits d'Hivern, performed in Catalan.
Death, doom, and sludge metal act from Barcelona, Spain formed in 2025. They deliver crushing, slow-burning extremity from the Catalan capital's underground.
Espermaticidio is a stoner/doom power trio from Santiago, Chile, active since the 1990s with early recordings dating to 1993 and material written through 1998. The trio — Gonzalo Garcia on bass and vocals, David Véliz on guitar, and Rodrigo Villalobos on drums — blends Sabbathian proto-doom with heavy psych and fuzz rock, singing in both Spanish and English. Their 2025 album Kalkutun, released through their own Bandcamp, is considered their strongest output to date.
Espermorragia was a goregrind and brutal death metal band from Villa Amelia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose lineup included guitarist Mario Vil, drummer Kanamith, and vocalist Seba Grinder. The band released their "Culto Grotesco" EP in 2014, recorded at Villa Amelia Grinder Home Studios, and followed it with a 2015 split release alongside Brazilian band Disformes titled "Sangue Correndo... / Culto Grotesco", issued through Zombie Records.
Black metal project from Sarreinsming in Moselle, France active since 2009. They channel dark energy from the Franco-German borderlands.
Fort Worth's Espials von Lethe has practiced black metal since 2003, taking its name from Lethe — the river of forgetfulness in Greek mythology — and building music around themes of oblivion and dissolution. Two decades of underground activity have kept the project true to an austere, uncompromising vision.
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