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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Stoner metal band from Nantes, France active since 2002, self-described as loud and proud heavy music. Their discography spans from the 2003 Diesel EP through 2014's Rise Again, delivered by vocalist Richard Royce and a tight four-piece lineup.
El Santo Asesino is a death metal and grindcore project from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in late 2013 by guitarist and vocalist Danilo Gonzalez as a one-man band. The project blends extreme metal with industrial and electronic elements, drawing on influences including Nailbomb, Brujeria, and Napalm Death, and released the demo O Inimigo do Meu Inimigo as its debut.
Stoner/doom metal and grunge act from Berlin, Germany, blending heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs with nineties alternative rock influences since 2012. Their tongue-in-cheek name reflects a laid-back attitude that permeates their groove-heavy, smoke-filled sound.
Bergamo's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this stoner metal unit is among them — wielding wah-soaked leads and bass-heavy grooves in the tradition of Kyuss and Sleep. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
El Árbol de la Horca is a Santiago-based extreme metal band that debuted in 2025 with the EP Abismo Inevitable, a five-track release combining crushing sludge doom, stoner heaviness, and bursts of grindcore intensity. The band describes their sound as slow, heavy, and miserable, punctuated by occasional injections of merciless brutality.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from London, England active since 2013. They carry the torch of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal tradition.
Named after the trickster rabbit deity of Richard Adams's Watership Down, Minneapolis's El-Ahrairah has been practicing a cerebral, literary strain of black metal since 2009. The band brings a distinctive mythological perspective to the American black metal underground.
Parlin, New Jersey's El-Ahrairah has been grinding out a death metal and grindcore hybrid since 2009, sharing a name with the Minneapolis black metal act but occupying a completely different sonic space. Brutal, economical, and unrelenting.
Stuttgart-based act that evolved from alternative/hard rock into melodic heavy metal and hard rock since 2018. Their stylistic evolution reflects a natural progression toward heavier, more muscular songwriting from Germany's automotive capital.
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