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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Brighton trio Esben and the Witch — Rachel Davies, Thomas Fisher, and Daniel Copeman — formed in 2008 and built a reputation for atmospheric music that fuses post-punk, darkwave, shoegaze, and gothic rock into cathartic, densely layered compositions. Their debut album Violet Cries (2011) on Matador Records reached number 13 on the UK Indie Chart and brought widespread critical attention, followed by Wash the Sins Not Only the Face (2013) and A New Nature (2014). Subsequent records including Older Terrors (2016) and Nowhere (2018) on Season of Mist refined their sound toward heavier, more abstract territory.
In existence since 2014, this Sneek Thrash Metal outfit delivers crossover-tinged fury with punk's directness and metal's complexity. Their place within Holland's dense concentration of metal talent speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Thrash metal act from Oeventrop in Germany's Sauerland region, formed in 2021, delivering aggressive, riff-driven compositions. Their name captures the intensifying, building energy of their thrash metal assault.
Cheboksary-based sludge metal act, active since 2025 delivering glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Escalpo is a death metal and d-beat punk band from Rio Claro, São Paulo, formed in 2019 by veterans of the South American underground scene who blend the raw energy of Discharge and Motörhead with death metal aggression. The band released their debut EP "Retrocedendo" in November 2020, recorded at Casarão Music Studios in Piracicaba, followed by the full-length "Unnus" in October 2023 through Thrash Out Records.
Groove metal band from the industrial city of Gabrovo in central Bulgaria, laying down heavy, rhythmic riffs since 2020. Their sound channels the muscular, mid-tempo aggression that defines the groove metal genre.
Practitioners of black metal and depressive black metal, this Russian outfit has been refining their craft since 2022. Their sound hinges on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere, delivered with unrelenting drive.
A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Nowe/Świecie-based black metal and death metal act channels frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Active since 2014, blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Nuremberg, Germany, blending harmonic intensity with aggressive energy since 2007. Their nearly two-decade career reflects deep commitment to the fusion of melodic death metal and hardcore from Bavaria's second-largest city.
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