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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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Austrian industrial metal solo project from Hollabrunn led by guitarist Silas Fiausch, who channels over three decades of instrumental experience into spiritually motivated heavy music. With a prolific output of sixteen-plus albums bearing titles like "Erzengel," "Seraphim," and "Blutmond," the project fuses industrial heaviness with transcendent, faith-driven themes.
Dallas's Eloi blend groove metal's hip-swinging heaviness with thrash's aggression, a combination that fits the Texas tradition of metal that wants to move the room as much as destroy it.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
Sludge and stoner metal project from Finland, launched in 2026. They bring fresh, heavy sludge to the Finnish underground.
Virginia's Elphael arrived in 2025 swinging hard at slam and brutal death metal's most extreme registers — bowel-shaking breakdowns, guttural vocals, and the kind of crushing low-end that needs proper subwoofers to fully appreciate.
Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels black metal and pagan metal with a focus on pre-Christian themes and folk instrumentation over extreme metal foundations. Formed in 2012, based in Glasgow, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this doom metal, funeral doom metal, and stoner metal act from Sweden traffics in fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Since 2016, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
Los Angeles black metal act Elrik operate in the city's more underground corners, trading the sunshine of their surroundings for cold, misanthropic darkness that has defined the project since 2014.
Blackened speed/heavy metal band from Purgatório, Portugal formed in 2020. Their Catalan-language name and raw, blackened speed metal approach draw on Iberian underground metal traditions.
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