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Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Psychedelic Doom/Stoner Metal outfit rooted in Kadıköy, channeling volatile underground intensity since 2014. Slow, deliberate riffing and suffocating atmospheres form the foundation of their craft.
Deathcore act from the Mediterranean city of Alicante, active since 2022. Their visceral sound channels modern extreme metal from Spain's sun-drenched Valencian coast.
Hums in the Dark is a experimental progressive metal band from Sweden, formed in 2012. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Stoner doom metal act from Bristol, active since 2021. Their compositions blend the psychedelic heritage of Bristol's music scene with crushing doom and stoner metal weight.
Filthy Black Metal from Dripping Springs.
Hun is a black metal project from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2019 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Hungary black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Rooted in Helsinki's underground, this psychedelic death/sludge metal project delivers crushing compositions with conviction since 2015. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Atmospheric black metal project from Grodno, Belarus, formed in 2025. Their debut Driven By Sin delivers three tracks of haunting, romantic lo-fi black metal that has drawn comparisons to early Kekht Arakh and Midnight Betrothed.
New York's Hung take the melodic and progressive side of death metal seriously, building dense, shifting compositions since 2014 that reward repeated listens. Technically ambitious without losing sight of the riff.
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