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Evilheart is a blackened death metal band formed in 1999 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, originally rooted in melodic black metal before shifting toward a heavier black/death direction. The band released four records across their two-decade career, including the debut album Dark in Glory (2004) and Quinquaginta (2014) on Test Your Metal Records, before splitting up in 2019.
Black metal project from France active since 2017. They channel evil darkness through raw black metal.
Doom and sludge metal band from Barcelona, Spain formed in 2012, with releases including Cabeza de Vaca and a contribution to October Dust, a Spanish tribute to Peter Steele. Their heavy, crushing sound pays homage to the titans of doom.
Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this death metal and thrash metal act from Arzamas traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 2016, they've built a catalog that reflects Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape.
Pasadena, California's Evilization has been shredding through the LA area thrash underground since 2016, carving out space in a region that birthed some of the genre's most influential acts. Their name is equal parts threat and diagnosis — a band that treats thrash metal not as nostalgia but as ongoing, necessary aggression.
When Evilized emerged in 2007 from Racibórz, they brought with them a sound rooted in doom metal and gothic metal — all beauty-and-the-beast vocal contrasts over darkly atmospheric arrangements. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Black metal project from Split, Croatia formed in 2019. They bring raw black metal from the Dalmatian coast.
Italian heavy metal band formed in 2018, delivering traditional heavy metal with an emphasis on classic riffing and old-school metal values. Their sound pays tribute to the genre's foundational principles.
Gastonia, North Carolina's EvilLeaf is a stoner/doom metal outfit that formed in 2023, adding their fuzz-laden low end to the Carolinas' growing heavy underground. Their sound moves at the deliberate pace of sludge, thick with psychedelic haze and rooted in the Southern tradition of playing slow and heavy as a spiritual practice.
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