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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Salinas, California's Elektrix have been churning out meat-and-potatoes thrash metal since 2015, the agricultural heartland of the Central Valley providing an unlikely but appropriate backdrop for no-frills aggression.
A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Abakan-based thrash metal act channels whiplash-inducing tempo shifts and gang vocal outbursts. Active since 2016, pure adrenaline translated into riff form.
Hard-driving industrial metal from Tyler.
A Tampa black metal act with roots going back to 2003, Element of Eclipse carries the legacy of Florida's extreme metal scene into the black metal underground, two decades deep and still active.
Washington State's Element of Fate bring sweeping orchestration to traditional heavy metal, pairing symphonic grandeur with classic metal structures in a project formed in 2022 that aims squarely for the epic.
Heavy metal band from Dublin, Ireland with roots going back to 1996. They are among the longest-running heavy metal acts in the Irish scene.
Power metal act from Trinec in the Czech Republic's Silesian corner, freshly formed in 2025 with an elemental approach to melodic, anthem-driven metal. Their name suggests a sound built from the fundamental forces of the genre.
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Selfoss, Iceland — doom metal and funeral doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2023, they deal in earth-shaking distortion and mournful clean passages. Mournful melodies surface between waves of suffocating heaviness.
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