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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Drawing from Forlì's metal heritage, this heavy metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2020. Their compositions celebrate the timeless formula of powerful riffs and soaring melodies.
Metalcore act from Rambouillet near Paris, active since 2013. Their energetic sound channels over a decade of experience in the Île-de-France metalcore scene.
Hidrommel is a heavy metal band from Lavras, Brazil, formed in 2022. The band released their debut album We Are the Seas in 2024, a ten-track record that draws on classic heavy metal traditions with a seafaring lyrical theme spanning tracks such as "Pirates of 21st Century," "Sirena's Call," and "Natural Born Drinkers."
Forged in Novara's metal community, this black metal act channels grim aggression since 2004. Atmospheric depth and feral intensity coexist in their compositions.
Dementiae is a black metal band from Santiago, Chile, whose members perform under the names Satanya, Draco, and Demonamorthus. Their debut demo Between Dementia and Death, released through Pagan Forest Records and Black Crusade Productions in a limited edition of 100 CD copies, draws on the atmospheric and depressive currents of early Burzum alongside elements of doom metal.
Black metal band from Gijon, Spain, active since 2014. Their name meaning 'Winter in Darkness,' they channel cold, atmospheric black metal from the Asturian coast.
Black metal band from Spain, formed in 2018. Their commanding approach to black metal carries an authoritative, uncompromising vision of the genre.
A brand-new presence in the avant-garde death metal sphere, Hierarchies arrived in 2025 with technical ambition and a willingness to bend genre logic in pursuit of something genuinely strange. Their approach to death metal is as much compositional problem-solving as it is sonic brutality.
Heavy metal and hard rock act from Leicester in the East Midlands, active since 2018. Their beer-punning name adds British humor to classic metal and rock compositions.
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