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Ex Eye is a New York-based experimental metal quartet formed in 2016 by saxophonist Colin Stetson, drummer Greg Fox (Liturgy), synthesist Shahzad Ismaily, and guitarist Toby Summerfield, signed to Relapse Records on the strength of their festival performances before releasing their first studio material. Their self-titled debut album (2017), recorded live at Ismaily's Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn, fuses noise, progressive metal, and avant-garde jazz into four sprawling, high-density compositions. The project represents a meeting point between Stetson's extended saxophone techniques and the percussive intensity of contemporary extreme metal.
Black metal project from Belgium's Limburg province, channeling dark, misanthropic extremity since 2019. Their name, meaning "from the underworld," reflects a commitment to the genre's most abyssal and uncompromising aesthetics.
The Dutch city of Boxtel serves as headquarters for this progressive metal and symphonic metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
When Ex Machina emerged in 2012 from London, they brought with them a sound rooted in groove metal and industrial metal — all factory-floor percussion married to distorted guitar punishment. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Bellingham, Washington's Ex Nihilo conjure raw, atmospheric black metal from the misty Pacific Northwest, active since 2015. Their sound draws naturally from the cold and forested landscape of the region — bleak tremolo-picked riffs, howling vocals, and a sense of desolation that feels earned by geography.
Atmospheric black metal project from Spain that launched in 2025. They craft immersive, layered black metal soundscapes from the Iberian underground.
Novosibirsk's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this avant-garde metal and symphonic metal unit is among them — wielding lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland formed in 2016. They deliver fierce, riff-driven thrash from the Finnish capital.
Death metal act from Brussels, Belgium, delivering visceral, unrelenting extremity since 2012. Their approach channels the genre's foundational principles of guttural heaviness and rhythmic punishment from Belgium's capital city.
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