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Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels power metal and progressive metal with a focus on labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Formed in 2010, based in Venice, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Exploring the depths of post-metal and sludge metal, this Polish outfit from Poznań has been refining their craft since 2023. Their sound hinges on Eyehategod-indebted misery channeled through crushing volume, delivered with unwavering intensity.
Thrash metal act from Passau on Germany's Austrian border, delivering relentless, wide-ranging aggression since 2013. Their name captures the spreading, all-consuming nature of their thrash metal fire.
Brutal death metal outfit from Wolfsberg in Austria's Carinthia region, delivering pulverizing extremity since 2018. Their relentless assault of blast beats, guttural vocals, and crushing riffs reflects the genre's most uncompromising tendencies.
Avant-garde black metal project from Zagreb, Croatia active since 2017. They push black metal into experimental territory from the Croatian capital.
Crafting their sound since 2012, this Treviso Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Active in Stockholm since 2018, this Swedish act forges Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
San Francisco's Extermination have been keeping the Bay Area's thrash tradition alive since 2013, drawing direct lines back to the scene that gave the world Metallica, Exodus, and Testament. Their music honors that legacy without merely imitating it — aggressive, riff-driven, and unashamed of where it comes from.
Circle Pines, Minnesota's Extermination Day occupy a corner of the metal universe where heavy doom riffing meets the working-class directness of punk, crafting music since 2020 that hits slowly but hits hard. The suburban Minneapolis origin grounds their sound in a practical, no-nonsense approach to heaviness.
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