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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Practitioners of folk metal and power metal, this Swedish outfit from Boden has been refining their craft since 2015. Their sound hinges on celebratory drinking-song energy fused with genuine heaviness, delivered with relentless commitment.
Poland — death metal and melodic death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2020, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Rising from the coastal edge of Long Island in 2022, Ethereal Frost channel windswept black metal rooted in icy riffs and bleak atmosphere. The band's raw approach recalls the stripped-down fury of Scandinavian second-wave forebears transplanted to the northeastern shore.
Symphonic metal act from Copenhagen, Denmark, blending orchestral grandeur with powerful metal instrumentation since 2019. Their celestial, fantasy-inspired name captures the otherworldly beauty and epic scope of their symphonic compositions.
Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels death metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 2014, based in Glossop, the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
A Philadelphia black metal outfit active since 2011, Ethereal Morning Rise have spent over a decade carving cold, melodic riffs from the city's underground. Their longevity speaks to a dedicated pursuit of darkness rooted in the classic black metal aesthetic.
New Jersey's Ethereal Myst arrived in 2024 fusing death metal's pulverizing heaviness with black metal's atmospheric menace into a hybrid that feels simultaneously caustic and spectral. Still in their early days, the band already show a taste for genre-blurring extremity.
A product of a scene with deep roots in the former Czechoslovak underground, this Bratislava-based black metal, doom metal, and pagan metal act channels nature worship and warrior ethos channeled through heavy, atmospheric compositions. Active since 1998, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Part of Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community, this act channels doom metal and stoner metal with a focus on fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Formed in 2011, based in Kyiv, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
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