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Let You Go (2024)
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Death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece active since 2014. They bring fierce extreme metal from the Greek capital.
Black metal act from Sion in Switzerland's Valais region, forging dark, atmospheric extremity since 2007. Their name, Latin for "beginning," marks the starting point of a journey into alpine black metal darkness.
Death metal act from Osnabruck in Lower Saxony, Germany, delivering crushing extremity since 2008. Their numerically suffixed name suggests a scientific, methodical approach to death metal's punishing framework.
Seymour, Tennessee's Exorency are a young death metal force formed in 2024, building their sound far from the major metropolitan scenes and bringing a focused, unadorned approach to the genre's fundamentals. East Tennessee provides an unlikely but fitting origin for music this blunt and uncompromising.
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Gothic metal act from Havirov, Czech Republic, blending dark atmospheric beauty with heavy instrumentation since 2013. Their approach merges the emotional depth of gothic metal with the industrial heritage of their Silesian hometown.
Exortta is a symphonic black/doom metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, playing in the Christian unblack metal tradition. The band released their debut album "Last Called" in 2015, later remastered and reissued in 2020 through Vision of God Records, and contributed the track "David's Lyre" to the Brazilian extreme metal compilation "Evig Mørke Collection Vol. I" in 2017.
Melodic heavy/power metal act from Bochum, Germany, crafting anthemic, melody-driven compositions since 2015. Their approach blends the harmonic richness of melodic metal with the triumphant energy of power metal.
Doom, drone, and sludge metal project from Finland, active since 2013. They explore the heaviest, slowest extremes of metal through crushing drone-doom.
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