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Evoken are one of the most respected and enduring acts in American funeral doom, active since 1994 out of Lyndhurst, New Jersey. Their sound is defined by glacial tempos, crushing weight, and an atmosphere of profound grief — death metal's brutality made to feel not fast and violent but slow and inevitable. Across decades of releases, they have remained essential to the genre, their music the sonic equivalent of mourning without end.
Oldenzaal, Netherlands — death metal and doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2018, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Evoker is a black metal band from San Carlos de Bariloche in Patagonia, Argentina, formed in 2018. Their debut full-length, Snake of the End, was recorded at Lucas Bunker in Bariloche in 2020 and co-released with Metal Squad Records in October 2021. The band draws on the raw, cold atmosphere of Argentina's Patagonian south.
Atmospheric black/folk metal band from Minsk, Belarus, blending stormy blast beats with epic ambiance and Eastern European dark tales since 2008. Their extensive nine-album catalog spans early recordings from 2005 through releases like "Bald Mountain" and "Conjunction of Spheres," drawing deeply from Slavic mythology and folklore.
Evokthum is a bestial war black metal project from Minas Gerais, Brazil, founded in 2024 by the duo Evokator of Storms and Tyrannic Arsenal of War. The band released their debut demo "Majesty Blood Vomiter" in December 2024, followed by their first full-length "Unholy Mass Eradication" in 2025, delivering a raw and aggressive sound in the tradition of war metal acts like Black Witchery and Proclamation.
Santa Monica's Evol play a sun-bleached, street-level brand of crossover thrash that fuses the aggression of punk with the technical punch of classic thrash metal, coming together in 2019. The coastal California setting informs their lean, driving sound — short songs, relentless energy, and a sense of urgency that owes as much to hardcore as it does to Slayer.
Thrash metal band from Olette in the French Pyrenees, active since 2011. They deliver high-energy thrash from the remote mountain villages of Catalonia.
A product of a scene that fuses Anatolian mystique with Western extremity, this Ankara-based thrash metal act channels whiplash-inducing tempo shifts and gang vocal outbursts. Active since 2004, pure adrenaline translated into riff form.
Lovecraft-devoted death/doom metal cult from Florence, Italy formed in 2008, self-described as "the ultimate preaching cult devoted to the Prophet H.P. Lovecraft." Their 2011 demo Mystical Madness — recorded at Inferno Studio in Florence and limited to 50 tape copies via Ordo MCM — channels Cthulhu mythos through downtuned death/doom across three extended tracks.
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