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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Austrian black metal act from Lower Austria, formed in 2020. Their sound draws on raw black metal foundations with an aggressive, uncompromising approach to the genre.
Chicago's Hellbound Sons arrived in 2025 waving the flag for classic heavy metal and hard rock in a city with deep roots in both. Stripped of pretense and loaded with riff, they represent a straight-line back to the genre's foundational pleasures.
Vicious black/thrash metal project from Turku, carving a path through Finland's underground since 2000. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Thrash/death metal and metalcore band from Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2015. Their aggressive sound spans the full spectrum from thrash and death metal intensity to metalcore breakdowns.
Thrash metal band from Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, active since 2015. Their scorching thrash erupts from the heart of the Black Forest with blistering speed and aggression.
From the southernmost edge of Texas, McAllen's Hellbrood has served up raw black metal since 2013, carving out an unlikely but genuine outpost for the genre in the Rio Grande Valley. Their sound is bleak, stripped, and borders-defying.
Black/thrash metal band from Bamberg, Germany, active since 2015. Their ferocious blend of blackened fury and thrash velocity rages from the historic Franconian cathedral city.
Hellbutcher is a black metal project from Dals Långed, Sweden, active since 2016 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hellböözer is a speed/black metal project from Clermont-Ferrand, France, active since 2018 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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