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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Symphonic power metal act from Annaberg-Buchholz in Saxony's Erzgebirge mountains, crafting orchestrally enriched, anthemic compositions since 2012. Their paradoxical name lends a dreamlike quality to their fusion of symphonic grandeur and power metal energy.
Eternal Sorrow is one of the foundational doom metal bands from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, with a sound described as heavy, oppressive, and deeply melancholic. The band has released three albums: "The Way of Regret" (1998) on Demise Records, "Legacy" (2002), and "The House" (2015), a 70-minute triple digipack release.
Black metal project from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2023, channeling hunger, deprivation, and existential emptiness through raw compositions. Their name captures the consuming, relentless character of their black metal from the German capital.
Melodic extreme metal band spanning Madrid and Edinburgh, led by Daniel R. Flys and Jaime Torres. Their 2024 sophomore album A Giant Bound to Fall features guest appearances from Dan Swano and Sven de Caluwe of Aborted, mixed and mastered at Unisound.
Kingston, Massachusetts gave the world Eternal Suffering in 2017 — a brutal death metal outfit whose dense, churning sound carries the full weight of New England's storied extreme metal lineage.
Eternal Sun Temple is a stoner/doom trio from San Francisco, Córdoba, Argentina, who released their debut album "Vol. I" in July 2022. A live companion release, "Vol I: Live," followed in November 2022, documenting their early performances.
Siniscola (Nuoro)-based black metal act, active since 2017 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Venomous Black Metal out of Texas.
Brutal Heavy Metal (early); Thrash / Death Metal (later) from Arlington.
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