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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Epic heavy metal in the Manilla Road tradition. Soaring and triumphant.
Charleston, Illinois' Eternal Champion inhabit the heavy, lumbering territory where doom-tinged metal meets hard rock simplicity. Active since 2013, they build their sound on thick riffs and an unpretentious relationship with the classics.
Mattoon, Illinois' Eternal Collapse drag sludge and doom through rural desolation, producing a sound that feels as bleak and sprawling as central Illinois farmland under a winter sky. Formed in 2019, they are one of the more understated heavyweights in the state.
Formed in 2023, this Kyiv Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, and Symphonic Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Rochester's Eternal Crypt bridge melodic black metal, folk metal, and power metal into a layered style that draws on ancient mythology without abandoning the aggression at the core. Active since 2018, they are among upstate New York's more genre-restless acts.
Shrouded in anonymity, Eternal Damnation channel the rawest currents of depressive black metal into recordings that feel genuinely isolated and desolate. Since 2019 they have operated as a solitary vessel for despair.
Melodic death/gothic metal band from Bocșa in the Banat region of western Romania, formed in 2023. Their sound blends melodic death metal with gothic atmospherics from one of Romania's smaller Carpathian towns.
Frigid Black Metal from Mission.
Groove/thrash metal act from Dessau-Rosslau in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2025. Their name evokes an eternal sunrise, driving a sound that merges groove metal's rhythmic power with thrash velocity.
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