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The Italian city of Salerno serves as headquarters for this thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes galloping rhythms and shredding leads that recall metal's golden age. Razor-edged guitar tone and barked vocals recall thrash's golden era.
Oakland's Electromancy bring a technical precision to black metal that sets them apart from the Bay Area pack — formed in 2020, they channel the city's intellectual extremity into densely constructed, technically demanding compositions.
Electrozombies are a Santiago trio — Comegato on guitar and vocals, Marcela Z on fuzz bass, and Paola Z on drums — playing a down-tuned blend of old-school death metal, sludge, and crust. Their discography includes the 2013 full-length Skull of Chaos and the 2024 album Ancestral Terror, with the band drawing conceptual inspiration from consumerism, electrification, and slow, putrid heaviness.
Death metal and grindcore act from Riihimaki, Finland. They deliver raw, grinding extremity from southern Finland.
New York's Elefantkiller blend crossover thrash with straight-up thrash metal into something loud, chaotic, and absurdly fun — the band's name says everything about their commitment to over-the-top heaviness since 2013.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Reggio Emilia-based power metal and symphonic metal act channels cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Active since 2018, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Swedish black metal and depressive black metal act, active since 2007 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in Sweden's legendary metal infrastructure, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Highstown, New Jersey's Elegia have been delivering traditional power and speed metal since 2010, their songs built around soaring melodic ambition and the kind of riff gallop that lives somewhere between Running Wild and Riot.
Operating out of Allegany, Elegiac is a black metal project formed in 2021 that leans into raw emotion and atmospheric density — music shaped by small-town isolation and the genre's oldest instincts.
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