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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Boone, North Carolina's Hempire hit the Appalachian highlands with a fusion of sludge and stoner metal since 2022, rolling heavy riffs through cloud banks of fuzz and feedback. Mountain air never sounded this thick.
Drawing from Santa Venera's metal heritage, this stoner/doom metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2023. Glacial compositions unfold with crushing weight, exploring despair and transcendence.
Thrash metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2015. Their name meaning 'Horrific' in Danish, they deliver ferocious thrash from the capital.
Brooklyn's Hemzeodysnexia arrived in 2022 with a mouthful of a name and a brutal death metal sound to match — dense, merciless, and technically ferocious, staking out their corner of New York's underground with immediate ferocity.
Black metal band from Hildesheim, Germany, active since 2016. Named after the poisonous plant, they craft dark, atmospheric black metal from the ancient cathedral city of Lower Saxony.
Oregon's Henbane Chariot evoke the poisonous plant that shares their name — a black metal act born in 2021 with a sound that is murky, hallucinatory, and laced with something deeply unwholesome. Dark folk undertones lurk beneath the blasting.
Forged in Luserna San Giovanni (Turin)'s metal community, this folk metal act channels devastating aggression since 2008. Their compositions channel the spirit of their genre through conviction and craft.
Post-Black Metal outfit rooted in Hordaland, channeling harsh underground intensity since 2016. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Based in Tampere, this avant-garde black metal project has been a fixture of Finland's underground since 2023. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
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