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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Slam/brutal death metal and deathcore act from Kiel on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2024 and delivering punishing slam breakdowns and guttural brutality. Their sound mines the heaviest depths of modern extreme metal.
British heavy metal band from Peterborough featuring Rage Sadler, Liam Etheridge, Toby Woods, and Isaac Healy, formed in 2009 and carrying the NWOBHM torch into the modern era. Their catalog spans multiple albums including A Crisis of Faith, Reforge the Steel, and the live recording X - The Tenth Anniversary.
Black/death metal act from Portsmouth, England, formed in 2016 and forging a sound at the violent intersection of black metal's atmospheric menace and death metal's guttural brutality. Their approach channels the darkest currents of both genres into a unified assault.
Black metal project from Flieden in central Germany, active since 2011 and crafting atmospheric black metal from the rural Hessian countryside. Their output channels isolation and nature into raw, introspective compositions.
Funeral doom metal project from Wales, active since 2015 and specializing in the genre's most glacially paced, emotionally crushing extremes. The project builds vast, sorrowful compositions defined by impossibly slow tempos and suffocating heaviness.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2013 and delivering hook-laden aggression with clean and harsh vocal interplay. Their approach balances melodic accessibility with the intensity of modern extreme metal.
Firmly rooted in thrash metal, this Italian actfrom Rome delivers palm-muted barrages and speed-freak intensity without compromise. They've been at it since 2019, and their riffs arrive at terminal velocity with zero tolerance for filler.
Gothic and black metal project from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2018 and blending dark, atmospheric textures with blackened aggression. Their sound bridges the ornate melodrama of gothic metal with raw black metal fury.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2007, based in Brescia, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
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