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When Ethnoteria emerged in 2013 from Krasnodar, they brought with them a sound rooted in gothic metal — all beauty-and-the-beast vocal contrasts over darkly atmospheric arrangements. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Black metal band from Madrid, Spain formed in 2009, featuring members Fusilator on vocals, Luiscifer and Ronny Grind on guitars, Daimon on bass, and Thenebre on drums. Their catalog includes the albums In Fundamentis Mortis, Final de los Tiempos, and Ancianos Ritos.
Death metal and melodic death metal band from Mulhouse/Colmar in Alsace, France active since 2013. They deliver fierce melodic death metal from the Upper Rhine plain.
Eths formed in Marseille, France in 1996 and developed a distinctive metalcore and groove metal sound that drew comparisons to Meshuggah and Tool while incorporating the contrasting clean and harsh vocal interplay of frontwoman Candice Clot. Their 2004 debut full-length Soma sold over 25,000 copies in France on the strength of an extensive 120-date tour, and the follow-up Tératologie (2007) expanded their international reach. After releasing III (2012) and Ankaa (2016), the band announced their dissolution in November 2016.
Baltimore's Ethur cultivate a heavy, narcotic blend of stoner and doom metal since 2016, leaning into the city's blue-collar grit to produce slow-burning, fuzz-saturated riffs that grind the listener into submission. Their music smells of motor oil and incense.
Metalcore band from Orleans, France active since 2013. They bring aggressive metalcore from the Loire Valley city.
Grindcore band from Subotica in northern Serbia near the Hungarian border, active since 2014. Their sound channels blasting grindcore intensity from the Vojvodina region's northernmost major city.
Raleigh's Etiolated have been draining the color from death metal since 2015, infusing it with the slow grief of doom to produce a death-doom sound that is genuinely desolate. Named for the pale withering of plants denied light, the band lives up to their moniker.
Doom and drone metal project from Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France formed in 2023. They craft massive, slow-burning heaviness from southwestern France.
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