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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Gävle, Sweden — heavy metal and thrash metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2012, they deal in whiplash-inducing tempo shifts and gang vocal outbursts. Pure adrenaline translated into riff form.
Sludge metal four-piece from Stourbridge in the Black Country, formed in 2016 and dubbed "Black Country Sludge Masters." Featuring Jack Cradock, James Pearson, Toby Sambidge, and Mitch Griffiths, their motto "Heavy Souls, Heavy Sounds" captures the essence of releases like Sacred Crimson.
Death metal band from Hrusovany u Brna, formed in 2022 and delivering punishing brutality from the South Moravian underground. Their straightforward death metal approach prioritizes crushing heaviness and guttural extremity.
Legendary Danish heavy metal icon with a thirty-plus year career as one of the most storied figures in metal history, known for horror-themed concept albums, theatrical falsetto vocals, and haunting orchestrations. His solo work following Mercyful Fate has defined an entire subgenre of theatrical, narrative-driven heavy metal.
When King Drive emerged in 2019 out of Netherlands, they brought with them a sound rooted in stoner metal — all desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Black/death metal band from Hamburg, formed in 2019 and channeling royal menace through savage extreme metal aggression. Their sound pairs black metal's cold fury with death metal's guttural power.
Stoner metal/rock band from Thessaloniki, active since 2018 and trafficking in the fuzzed-out, riff-worshipping grooves that define the stoner metal genre. Their sound emphasizes thick distortion and hypnotic repetition.
Zomba-based death metal and melodic death metal act, active since 2017 delivering HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Rooted in a scene that bridges Western and Eastern European extremity, their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Progressive doom metal band from Brighton, formed in 2014 and releasing their album Debt of Aeons on Aural Music in 2018. Their sound has been described as "grimy progressive doom with moments of epic melody," pairing powerful, emotionally charged vocals with heavy riffs and bluesy, jazz-inflected passages.
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