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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Sarasota's Euphoria spike their thrash metal with psychedelic undercurrents, forging a sound that rips at high velocity before dissolving into lysergic haze since 2020. Florida's swamp-heat and the Gulf Coast's strangeness both seem to seep into their chemistry.
Heavy metal and thrash band from Tolosa in the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2024. They bring fresh thrash-infused heaviness from the Basque underground.
Los Angeles's Euphoric Defilement have been delivering merciless brutal death metal from the sprawling megalopolis since 2015, their name suggesting a perverse joy in destruction that their music fully delivers. They are a reliable presence in Southern California's extreme metal underground.
Wheeling, Illinois's Euphoric Evisceration have spent over a decade building a reputation in brutal death metal since 2010, refining a sound defined by surgical violence and inhuman tempo. Long active in the Chicago suburban underground, they remain committed to extremity at its most uncompromising.
Doom metal and punk hybrid from Monchengladbach, Germany, merging the crushing weight of doom with punk's raw energy since 2018. Their unusual genre combination creates a distinctive sound that draws from both extremes.
Black, death, and deathcore band from Macon in Burgundy, France active since 2008. They deliver fierce, multi-faceted extreme metal from the Saone-et-Loire region.
Atmospheric black metal project from Switzerland, building immersive, layered soundscapes over tremolo-driven foundations since 2013. Named after a medicinal herb, their sound carries a natural, organic quality within the atmospheric black metal tradition.
Hailing from Exeter, New York, Euporie has been forging raw, uncompromising black metal since 2013. Named after one of Jupiter's outermost moons, they channel the void of deep space into frigid, desolate soundscapes rooted in the American black metal underground.
Forshaga's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this heavy metal unit is among them — wielding galloping rhythms and fist-pumping anthems. Melody and muscle share equal billing in their compositions.
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