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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Black/death metal and grindcore act from Munster, Germany, delivering venomous, three-genre extremity since 2015. Their name, meaning "pus" in German, captures the toxic, infectious quality of their sonic assault.
Death metal and melodic death metal band from Compiegne, France active since 2015. They deliver aggressive yet melodically rich death metal from the Picardy region.
Avant-garde black metal project from France launched in 2023. They push black metal into experimental territory with boundary-dissolving compositions.
Eivør Pálsdóttir, known mononymously as Eivør, is a Faroese singer-songwriter born in 1983 in Syðrugøta, Faroe Islands. She released her debut album at age 16 and has since built a career across folk, jazz, rock, pop, and electronica, singing in six languages and drawing from Faroese, Nordic, Icelandic, and Sámi musical traditions. She won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2021 and contributed to the soundtrack for the television series The Last Kingdom, cementing her status as one of the most internationally recognized artists from the Faroe Islands.
Raw black metal project from Herbstein in Hesse, Germany, channeling primitive, unpolished darkness since 2021. Their stripped-down approach embraces the lo-fi, confrontational side of black metal.
Dayton, Ohio's Ejaculating Rektal Squid Pussy commits fully to the brutality of goregrind and brutal death metal, a project formed in 2022 with no pretense toward subtlety. Cavernous gurgles, blast beats, and maximum grotesquerie.
Burlington, Vermont's Ejaculatör has been delivering a nasty amalgam of black, thrash, and death metal since 2020, the umlaut signaling a dedication to filthy excess across all three traditions. Raw, fast, and gloriously crude.
Death/thrash metal band from France, active since 2014. They deliver fierce, riff-driven extreme metal from the French underground.
Heavy metal band from Vilanova i la Geltru on Catalonia's coast, delivering classic metal since 2015. Their Basque-influenced name adds regional identity to their approach to traditional heavy metal.
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