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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Melodic heavy metal outfit from Graz, Austria, formed in 2022, blending soaring vocal melodies with driving, classic metal riffs. Their sound draws from the rich tradition of European melodic metal while carving out their own identity in the Styrian scene.
Death/thrash metal act from Osnabruck in Lower Saxony, Germany, delivering aggressive crossover extremity since 2009. Their Latin-derived name, meaning "outcome" or "event," lends a fatalistic quality to their relentless metal.
Avant-garde black metal act from the Bielefeld/Duisburg axis of Germany, pushing the genre's boundaries through experimental compositions since 2022. Their Norwegian name, meaning "adventure" or "fairy tale," hints at the narrative quality of their unconventional black metal.
Symphonic metal band from Lyon, France formed in 2020. They deliver orchestral, cinematic metal from France's second city.
Post-doom sludge metal band from Helsinki, Finland active since 2009. Their 2017 album Of Woe features expansive, progressive doom compositions culminating in the 15-minute epic These Are Ashes, These Are Roots.
A project with deep roots in rural Pawnee, Illinois, Ever Soul has evolved dramatically since 2009 — beginning in neoclassical metal territory before shifting into black metal in their later work. That arc makes them a genuinely unusual entry in the American underground, a band whose identity transformed as deliberately as any in their region.
Milazzo (Messina)'s metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this gothic metal unit is among them — wielding Type O Negative-school brooding grandeur with genuine emotional weight. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Thrash metal band from Montpellier, France active since 2013. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash from the Languedoc coast.
Firmly rooted in metalcore, this British actfrom Birmingham delivers clean-to-harsh vocal dynamics over rhythmically punishing foundations without compromise. They've been at it since 2017, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
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