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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Austin noise rock/post-punk. One of the great unsung bands of the Austin underground.
Progressive death metal act from Brno, Czech Republic, combining death metal's aggression with progressive structures and melodic complexity since 2009. Named after a race from Tolkien's Silmarillion, their sound carries a mythical weight within its technical framework.
Denver's Eddie Kim charts one of the more interesting trajectories in the underground — starting from post-rock and progressive territory before evolving toward death metal, deathcore, and djent, active since 2011.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Novara-based progressive metal act channels Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Active since 2008, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Edeem is a death metal band from San Juan del Río, Querétaro, Mexico, formed in 2015. The band draws influence from black metal, metalcore, science fiction, and horror, and released their debut EP "En la boca de la locura" in 2019. A follow-up demo, "Demo[níaco]," appeared in 2021.
Edeem is a death metal band from San Juan del Río, Querétaro, Mexico, formed in 2015. The band draws influence from black metal, metalcore, science fiction, and horror, and released their debut EP "En la boca de la locura" in 2019. A follow-up demo, "Demo[níaco]," appeared in 2021.
Thrash metal band from Munich, Germany, forging aggressive, politically charged metal since 2011. Named after the iconic Alpine flower, their sound draws from the Bavarian capital's rich musical heritage.
Power metal act from the small Riojan town of Autol, Spain, formed in 2023. Their Alpine flower-referencing name adds natural beauty to their approach to anthemic, triumphant power metal.
Active in Piacenza since 2014, this Italian act forges Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
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