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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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Verona-based brutal death metal, death metal, and grindcore act, active since 2017 delivering technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Death, doom, and sludge metal band from Florence, Italy active since 2014. They craft crushing heaviness from the Renaissance city.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2019, based in Modena/Bologna, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Death metal and goregrind act from Ostrava, Czech Republic, blending guttural extremity with grinding chaos since 2020. Their approach draws from both genres' most visceral tendencies from Moravia's industrial heartland.
In existence since 2021, this IJmuiden Crossover Thrash and Thrash Metal outfit delivers D.R.I.-descended riffing built for circle pits and stage dives. Their place within Holland's dense concentration of metal talent speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Brooklyn's Eggnogg has been doing something genuinely strange with doom metal since 2010 — psychedelic in the truest sense, dissolving the edges of heavy riffs into hazy, tripped-out ritual. An odd name for a band that is anything but ordinary.
Black/death metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, forging a ferocious, bestial sound across releases like "Rot Prophet," "Outpregnate," and "Wombspreader" since 2016. Their provocatively titled catalog reflects an uncompromising commitment to extreme metal's most savage and transgressive tendencies.
Black/sludge metal act from Silkeborg, Denmark, merging Nordic black metal with the heavy, swampy weight of sludge since 2016. Named after the Norse giant who heralded Ragnarok, their sound carries apocalyptic weight.
Heavy metal band from El Puerto de Santa Maria in Cadiz, Spain, forging classic metal since 2015. Their name, meaning "shield" in Spanish, captures the defensive, protective power of their traditional heavy metal.
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