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Horrorterror is a death metal and grindcore band from Medellín, Colombia. The band released a self-titled EP and participated in multiple splits in 2020, including the four-way split Aberraciones Sonoras and the three-way split Síntoma de un País en Guerra alongside Anger Blast and Rotten Noise.
Horrorthrone is a melodic black metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2015. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Heavy/thrash metal act from Belgium, formed in 2020. Their aggressive sound blends traditional heavy metal heft with thrash metal velocity, contributing to the vibrant Belgian underground thrash revival.
Black/Thrash Metal, Crust outfit rooted in Hämeenlinna, channeling furious underground intensity since 2009. Atmospheric depth and feral intensity coexist in their compositions.
Death/groove metal band from Weissenfels, Germany, formed in 2026. The newest death-groove act in the Saxon-Anhalt underground, they bring fresh brutality and rhythmic heaviness to the scene.
Death metal outfit from the southeastern Finnish town of Hamina near the Russian border, active since 2015. Their Finnish-language name adds local character to old-school death metal from the borderlands.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina project Horseback is the primary creative vehicle of multi-instrumentalist Jenks Miller, who has released more than a dozen recordings since 2007 fusing drone metal, black metal, American roots music, and psychedelic noise into a consistently singular body of work. The Invisible Mountain (2009) and Half Blood (2012) are among the more widely recognized releases in a catalog that has appeared on Relapse, Hydra Head, and Three Lobed Records. Miller's willingness to draw equally from Neil Young's Crazy Horse and the work of Sunn O))) makes Horseback a difficult project to categorize but an easy one to recognize.
Hortus Animae is a progressive black metal project from Rimini, Italy, active since 2014 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Stoner/sludge metal band from the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2020. Their thick, fuzz-laden sound channels the heavy grooves of stoner sludge from the green hills of Euskal Herria.
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