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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Eternal play old-school death metal with the grime, swing, and riff memory that made the style feel dangerous before it became overly polished. Forsaken Memories introduced a raw melodic-thrash edge, while Faceless Evil moved the band closer to a classic death metal vocabulary: guttural vocals, grinding guitar tone, and songs that balance speed with corpse-heavy groove. Cryptic Lust is the clearest statement of that approach, pulling from late-eighties and early-nineties Florida and Swedish death metal without sounding like a museum piece. Emilio Ortega's vocals and guitar work give the songs a rotten, commanding presence, with Sofie Nabboud's guitars, Xander Bridge's drumming, and Rob Wolfe's bass locking into arrangements that move between thrash attack, doomier stomps, and serrated leads. Tracks such as "Cryptic Lust," "Thorns of Regret," and "Conjuring the Void" show a band more interested in memorable riffs than technical clutter. Eternal's sound is filthy but readable, brutal but not flat, and driven by the sense that every tempo change should make the next riff hit harder.
Black metal project from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2025, channeling ethereal darkness and void-like desolation. Their name captures the permanent, cosmic emptiness at the heart of their atmospheric black metal vision.
Black metal project from Germany, conjuring occult darkness through alchemical transformation since 2015. Their name merges the concepts of eternity and alchemy, reflecting a mystical approach to atmospheric black metal.
Firmly rooted in power metal, this Swedish actfrom Umeå delivers uplifting harmonic progressions and virtuosic instrumental interplay without compromise. They've been at it since 2014, and anthemic choruses and virtuosic solos define their approach.
New York's Eternal Ascent combine symphonic grandeur with power metal's soaring melodicism, constructing anthemic compositions built for arenas and imagined medieval battlefields alike. Active since 2019, they pursue unapologetic epic bombast.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this death metal, melodic death metal, and thrash metal act from Mariestad traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 1994, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
Los Angeles's Eternal Ballers approach groove and thrash metal with a street-level irreverence that cuts against the genre's usual self-seriousness. Formed in 2021 with roots in punk attitude as much as metal technique, they are one of the more entertaining acts in the LA underground.
Brooklyn's Eternal Black smoke out with skull-crushing riffs anchored in the doom and stoner traditions, their sound carrying the weight of New York City asphalt and late nights. Since 2015 they have been a fixture of the borough's heavy underground.
Metalcore act from the Altenburger Land district of Thuringia, Germany, that evolved from hardcore origins since 2006. Their two-decade career reflects a long-running commitment to aggressive, emotionally charged music from eastern Germany.
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