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Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels groove metal with a focus on neck-snapping grooves and mid-tempo crushing power. Formed in 2010, based in Stoke-on-Trent, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
A product of the tiny nation at the crossroads of Germanic and Slavic metal, this Nova Gorica-based grindcore act channels punk-speed chaos meeting death metal's sonic extremity. Active since 1996, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal and thrash metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 1995, based in Bologna, the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
Albuquerque's Extremist have been forging death/thrash metal in the New Mexico desert since 2014, where isolation seems to breed a particular kind of ferocity. Their music straddles the grinding brutality of death metal and the galloping momentum of thrash, built for the headbang and the mosh in equal measure.
The Dutch city of Eindhoven serves as headquarters for this groove metal and progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this experimental act from Maryburgh traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2023, they've built a catalog that reflects the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition.
Heavy metal band with progressive influences from Irkutsk in eastern Siberia, active since 2005 — two decades of heavy metal from the historic city near Lake Baikal.
Thrash metal band from Mazyr, Belarus, delivering high-speed aggression from the southeastern corner of the country since 2012. Their industrial-sounding name reflects a mechanical, relentless approach to thrash metal riffing.
Based in St. Louis, Extrusion surfaced in 2023 as a young death metal outfit carrying on the Midwest's tradition of no-frills extremity. Their approach favors crushing forward momentum, channeling the genre's most primal impulses without detour.
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