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Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels heavy metal, power metal, and speed metal with a focus on relentless velocity and old-school metal purity. Formed in 2018, based in Pizzighettone (Cremona), the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Toruń-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.
Portland black metal project Eterna distills the grey, rain-soaked atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest into cold, atmospheric compositions. Formed in 2020, the band captures a sense of place as effectively as a sound.
Straddling the line between atmospheric black metal and black metal, this Italian actfrom Urbino fuses dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2017, and atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Laying down tracks since 2024, this Fiorenzuola D'Arda (Piacenza) Death Metal and Melodic Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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.
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