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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Exion emerged in 2017 from Rotterdam, they brought with them a sound rooted in heavy metal — all Maiden-esque gallops and Priest-inspired vocal histrionics. They play metal the way it was meant to be: loud, proud, and unfiltered.
Zaandam / Purmerend-based progressive metal act, active since 2017 delivering technical virtuosity in service of expansive, cinematic narratives. Rooted in a country that punches well above its weight in extreme metal, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Groove metal, metalcore, and thrash metal band from Tampere, Finland formed in 2024. They bring a fresh modern metal assault from Finland's industrial capital.
Thrash metal band from Sotkamo, Finland active since 2010. They deliver fierce thrash from the Kainuu region of eastern Finland.
Moscow-based crust punk and thrash metal act, active since 2022 delivering palm-muted barrages and speed-freak intensity. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, their riffs arrive at terminal velocity with zero tolerance for filler.
Seattle's Exist in Ruin fuse symphonic grandeur with black and death metal savagery, a combination that suits the Pacific Northwest's dramatic landscape as well as it does the stage. Since forming in 2022, they've built an aesthetic where orchestral sweep and blastbeat ferocity aren't opposites but collaborators.
Practitioners of black metal, doom metal, and drone metal, this Italian outfit from Bologna has been refining their craft since 2007. Their sound hinges on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere, delivered with absolute focus.
Heavy metal band from Tampere, Finland formed in 2019. They bring classic heavy metal energy from Finland's industrial capital.
Doom, sludge, and stoner metal band from London, England active since 2018. They bring crushing, psychedelic heaviness from the British capital.
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