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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Phoenix's Ellefson — fronted by former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson — channels old-school thrash and speed metal energy with the authority of someone who helped define the genre in the first place.
Prolific post-black metal solo project from Graz, Austria, active since 2012 with an extensive catalog of nine studio albums including "Todbringer," "Lebensnehmer," "Triebe," and 2024's "Todbringerin." Ellende stitches atmospheric black metal with deeply personal, German-language artistry across vinyl, CD, and digital releases.
Doom/post-metal act from Bernried in Bavaria, Germany, crafting heavy, atmospheric compositions since 2020. Their approach merges the crushing deliberation of doom metal with the expansive, textural dynamics of post-metal.
Straddling the line between doom metal and drone metal, this Latvian act fuses glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2021, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Mansfield's Ellimist bring a cerebral edge to death metal, layering progressive architecture over brutal foundations — songs that shift and evolve in ways that reward close listening rather than just overwhelm with raw force.
Des Moines' Elliot Klimowski operates as a one-person melodic death metal entity, crafting music that finds genuine feeling within the genre's aggressive framework — a solo project with the compositional ambition of a full band.
Devastating Progressive / Doom / Death Metal from Dallas.
Progressive metal band from Grenoble, France active since 2013. They deliver technically proficient progressive metal from the Alpine French city.
Kenosha, Wisconsin's Ellis approach progressive metal with a songwriter's sensibility, favoring dynamic shifts and textural depth over wankery, building patient compositions that earn their complexity.
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