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Practitioners of black metal, this Italian outfit from Treviso has been refining their craft since 2020. Their sound hinges on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere, delivered with punishing consistency.
Eligos is a death/black metal band from Brasília, Brazil, drawing on lyrical themes of Satanism, the Goetia, Thelema, and occultism. The band has released material including the track "Beast's Millenium Devours the World" through Prometheus Records, pursuing an uncompromising extreme metal approach rooted in the Brazilian underground scene.
Black metal, doom, and sludge band from Reykjavik, Iceland formed in 2021. They channel the harsh volcanic landscapes through extreme metal.
When Eliminate emerged in 2011 from Recanati (Macerata), they brought with them a sound rooted in speed metal and thrash metal — all pre-thrash intensity with a melodic edge. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
New Orleans crossover thrash act Elimination have been knocking heads since 2009, bringing the Crescent City's deep-seated aggression to a genre that thrives on speed, chaos, and hardcore-punk intensity.
Thrash metal act from Radevormwald in Germany's Bergisches Land region, delivering high-speed, riff-driven aggression since 2011. Their name captures the relentless, destructive energy of their approach to classic thrash metal.
Melodic death metal project from Belgrade, Serbia active since 2015, evolving from early melodic death metal into later avant-garde metal experimentation. Their stylistic evolution reflects ambition beyond the Serbian capital's established metal traditions.
Named after the occultist Éliphas Lévi, this Hazleton, Pennsylvania act fuses melodic black metal sweep with death metal's heaviest low-end, wrapping cold atmospheric passages around aggressive tremolo-driven assault.
Rising from the volcanic terrain of Volcano, Hawaii, Eliptic bring a traditional heavy metal sensibility to one of the most geographically isolated scenes in the country, forging songs that feel both timeless and distinctly apart.
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