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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Stoner metal band from Cordoba, Spain formed in 2017, with releases including the Eternal Cave EP and Tales from the Swamp. Their heavy, swamp-drenched riffs bring stoner heaviness from the heart of Andalusia.
Death/groove metal act from Dresden, Germany, merging death metal's guttural ferocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch since 2020. Their approach creates a dynamic blend of extremity and headbanging heaviness from Saxony's capital.
A product of the birthplace of heavy metal itself, this London-based heavy metal and thrash metal act channels mosh-pit-inducing aggression with tightly wound precision. Active since 2022, the tempo rarely drops below neck-breaking speed.
Thrash metal band from Tamines in Belgium's Walloon region, bringing aggressive, hardcore-tinged thrash since 2020. Their approach merges the speed of thrash metal with the raw intensity of the Belgian hardcore scene.
Devotees of thrash metal, this Russian outfit from Moscow has been refining their craft since 2017. Their sound hinges on galloping rhythms and shredding leads that recall metal's golden age, delivered with single-minded purpose.
Part of Lithuania's dark and atmospheric metal tradition, this act channels death metal, deathcore, and technical death metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 2015, based in Vilnius, the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
Heavy metal and power metal band from Kozani in northern Greece, active since 2016. They deliver epic, soaring metal from the Macedonian highlands.
Out of Kadoka, South Dakota — one of the more isolated corners of the American interior — Exile the Empire launched in 2024 with a melodic death metal vision that seems determined to prove geography is no barrier to ambition. Their sound blends the Scandinavian melodic death template with a rawer, homegrown intensity.
Black/death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland active since 2012. They deliver fierce extreme metal from Scotland.
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