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Seattle's Eternal Dusk arrived in 2023 fusing melodic death and thrash into something that carries the grey Pacific Northwest sky in its tone. Their city's long tradition of heavy, atmosphere-soaked metal seems baked into every riff.
The Russian city of Kaluga serves as headquarters for this death metal and doom metal operation, whose arsenal includes Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Psychedelic stoner and progressive doom metal act from Bretten in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, crafting expansive, mind-bending compositions since 2017. Their approach fuses the hazy psychedelia of stoner metal with the structural ambition of progressive doom.
Atlantic City's Eternal Essence have been crafting progressive metal with structural ambition since 2004, a career spanning two decades of genre shifts without abandoning their core sound. They are one of New Jersey's longest-serving progressive heavy acts.
Black metal project from Buje in Istria, Croatia formed in 2020. They channel dark intensity from the northernmost tip of the Croatian coast.
Sweden — groove metal and heavy metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2012, they deal in Pantera-descended heaviness with rhythmic swagger. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Part of Hungary's underappreciated metal tradition, this act channels doom metal with a focus on tectonic grooves and sorrowful melodic passages. Formed in 2002, based in Budapest, the low end alone could register on seismographs.
Eternal Fall is a doom/death metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, blending the heavy atmospheres of both genres with sincerity and determination. The band's discography spans from early demo-tapes such as "Ministers of Mayhem" (1997) through their 2003 full-length "And in Forbidden Sky" and the 2019 album "Under the Mind's Sheet".
Soaring Progressive Heavy / Power Metal out of Texas.
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