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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Las Vegas' Escape the Fate rode the wave of mid-2000s post-hardcore with their debut 'Dying Is Your Latest Fashion,' featuring original vocalist Ronnie Radke's theatrical screams and pop hooks. After Radke's departure and Craig Mabbitt's arrival, the band shifted toward a more metalcore and glam-influenced direction on albums like 'This War Is Ours' and 'Ungrateful.' Their capacity for reinvention and knack for arena-ready choruses have kept them touring consistently for nearly two decades.
Death metal band from Trebic, Czech Republic, delivering visceral, unrelenting extremity since 2016. Their name captures the desperate urgency that fuels their aggressive approach to death metal.
The Norwegian city of Gravdal serves as headquarters for this folk metal, heavy metal, and speed metal operation, whose arsenal includes celebratory drinking-song energy fused with genuine heaviness. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Hillsborough, North Carolina's Escaping Aghartha conjures blackened doom built around the mythic concept of Agharta — the subterranean hidden world — using ambient darkness and slow, deliberate riffing to suggest something vast and unknowable beneath the surface. Since 2016, the project has developed a sound as much about space and dread as it is about heaviness.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Latisana (Udine)-based industrial metal and progressive metal act channels Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Active since 2012, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Escarnium is an old-school death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, conceived in 2007 and active since 2008, drawing influence from Vital Remains, Incantation, and Immolation in crafting relentless, blast-beat-driven death metal. The band has released several notable records including the EP "Rex Verminorum" (2011, Hellthrasher Productions), debut full-length "Excruciating Existence" (2012), "Interitus" (2016), and "Inexorable Entropy" (2025).
Gothic metal/rock act from Iserlohn in Germany's Sauerland region, crafting dark, atmospheric compositions since 2012. Their approach merges the emotional weight of gothic metal with the accessibility of rock.
Death/groove metal five-piece from Rome featuring dual guitarists Giuseppe Ciurleo and Giovanni Toto alongside vocalist Luis Maggio, releasing their 2016 debut Blasphemous Godhead through Killerpool Records. Their sound blends death metal technicality with groove metal weight, touching on avant-garde and thrash elements.
Esceptus is a Black Metal band from Quito, Ecuador. The band released the six-track EP "Jaulas de irrealidad" in 2025, marking their debut on the underground Ecuadorian metal scene.
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