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Drawing from Treviso's musical fabric, this Italian act forges Power Metal built on fist-raising anthems built on speed and melody in equal measure. Every chorus reaches for the rafters with militant precision.
Nashville's Eternal Gaze bring a post-black metal sensibility to a city better known for a different kind of atmospheric songwriting. Founded in 2023, they channel introspection and heaviness into a style that sits comfortably outside Nashville's mainstream identity.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels black metal, doom metal, and funeral doom metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2008, based in Moscow, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Kraków-based black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2018, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Eternal Gray was a technical death metal band from Tel Aviv, Israel, formed in late 2001 by guitarist/vocalist Eyal Glottman and multi-instrumentalist Dory Bar-Or. Their debut album Kindless (2002), recorded at Abyss Studios in Sweden with producer Tommy Tägtgren and guest vocals from Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy) and Marcel Schirmer (Destruction), was released on Listenable Records and earned strong reviews in Metal Hammer and Rock Hard. The follow-up Your Gods, My Enemies (2011), released through Season of Mist, completed their catalog before Bar-Or dissolved the band in December 2012.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels death metal and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2012, based in Stora Höga, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Black metal band from Cavan, Ireland active since 2012. They channel cold, icy darkness from the rural Irish heartland.
Black metal project from Montpellier, France formed in 2019. They deliver dark, predatory black metal from the Languedoc region.
Sludge metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland active since 2015. They deliver crushing sludge from the Granite City.
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