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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Black metal project from Germany, formed in 2026. Their name meaning 'Execution,' they represent the newest wave of uncompromising German black metal.
Portland's Hinterlands blend black metal with punk's stripped directness, arriving at something rawer and more physically immediate than pure black metal tends to be. A recent formation, they sound like they're more interested in communicating urgency than mastering the genre's intricacies.
Solo project of Michael Anstice (keyboards in Hinayana). Gorilla riff death metal with releases Vices and Sins and Inferno.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Fuerteventura, Spain, formed in 2025. Their powerful sound brings heavy and thrash metal to the volcanic Canary Island landscape.
Doom/drone/sludge metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2010. Their suffocating blend of drone, doom, and sludge creates an overwhelming wall of sound from the Spanish capital.
The name alone announces Eugene, Oregon's Hippie Death Cult as a band with a sense of humor about the stoner doom genre they clearly love. Since 2019 they've delivered fuzz-caked, psychedelic doom that is simultaneously self-aware and genuinely heavy.
Melodic death metal project from Paris, active since 2023. Their memorial-themed name suits emotionally charged compositions blending Scandinavian melodic death metal with Parisian artistic sensibility.
Spanish band from Oiartzun, formed in 2025, spanning heavy metal and melodic hard rock. Their versatile approach blends metal heaviness with accessible rock melodies from the Basque Country.
Melodic death metal band from Hanover/Osnabruck, Germany, formed in 2021, featuring former members of Dawn of Disease and Critical Mess. Signed to Napalm Records, their album Dormant with vocalist Britta Gortz was mixed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios, drawing comparisons to Arch Enemy and early In Flames.
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