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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black/death metal band from Pontevedra, Spain, active since 2011. Their name meaning 'Here Lies' in Latin, they deliver crushing extremity from the Galician Rias Baixas.
Melodic death metal act from Birmingham, active since 2009. Their macabre name belies melodic sensibilities that blend death metal aggression with the songwriting heritage of Britain's metal birthplace.
Hicsos is a thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded in 1990 and one of the city's longest-running acts in the underground scene. Their sound fuses thrash with hardcore, addressing themes of religion, politics, and social conflict, and they have documented their run with albums including Eatin' Concrete (2004), Technologic Pain (2007), and Circle of Violence (2011), the last of which was re-released in 2018 with a DVD documentary titled 26 Years of Thrash Violence. The band is signed to Metal Blast Records and remains active.
Stoner/doom metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2023. Their thick, riff-heavy sound channels the hypnotic weight of stoner doom from the Bavarian capital.
Thrash metal band from Ghent, Belgium, active since 2011. Their energetic, riff-driven approach delivers the kind of neck-snapping thrash that has made the Flemish scene a hotbed for aggressive metal.
Hidden Capacity is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Jurva, Finland, formed in 2020. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Progressive metal band from Fuenlabrada, Spain, active since 2016. Their intricate, technically demanding compositions push metal into progressive territory from the Madrid metropolitan area.
Franklin, Indiana's Hidden Dagger blend stoner haze and doom weight with groove metal's rhythmic snap, arriving at something simultaneously lumbering and propulsive. Since 2018 they've proven that mid-tempo heaviness can carry as much punch as anything faster.
Black/death metal band from Spain, formed in 2018. Their fierce blend of black and death metal aggression channels dark, uncompromising extremity.
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