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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Neoclassical/progressive metal project from Munich, active since 2010 and named after the Hopi concept of a world out of balance. Their compositions merge classical music's structural sophistication with progressive metal's technical ambition.
Koyo are a Long Island band whose music connects melodic hardcore, pop punk, and emo to the region's deep hardcore lineage. Formed by musicians who grew up around the Long Island hardcore scene, the band carries clear links to groups such as Silent Majority, The Movielife, Taking Back Sunday, and the broader LIHC tradition while still writing songs that feel current. Their sound is fast, melodic, and emotionally direct: guitars ring and surge, drums push with hardcore urgency, and Joey Chiaramonte's vocals land between pop-punk melody and scene-rooted conviction. Koyo fit accepted scope through melodic hardcore, hardcore-adjacent punk, and pop punk. They are a useful example of how modern bands can come from hardcore culture without sounding like pure beatdown or revivalist youth crew. Releases such as Painting Words Into Lines, Drives Out East, Would You Miss It?, and later material show a band invested in memory, friendship, grief, place, and the strange emotional geography of growing up in a scene. Koyo's best songs work because they feel communal without becoming vague. The band writes hooks, but the live energy and hardcore foundation keep the music grounded, physical, and unmistakably tied to Long Island.
Emerging from Medvyn, this Ukrainian act forges Black Metal and Thrash Metal built on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.
Milan's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this heavy metal unit is among them — wielding old-school metal worship with genuine fire and conviction. Classic riffs and commanding vocals anchor every track.
Progressive folk metal band from Oulu, active since 2010 and delivering over a decade of adventurous, culturally eclectic compositions. Their tongue-in-cheek name merges Cossack imagery with metal, reflecting a playful approach to folk metal.
Belgrade, Serbia — black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2008, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Progressive thrash/death metal band from Nimes, active since 2016 and named with a Breton phrase meaning "blind division." Their technically ambitious approach merges progressive structures with extreme metal's aggression.
Melodic death/black metal band from Split, Croatia, active since 2014 and blending melodic death metal's sweeping guitar harmonies with black metal's atmospheric darkness. Their sound bridges the intensity of both genres from Croatia's Dalmatian coast.
When Kozit Muileann emerged in 2016 from Saint Petersburg, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and raw black metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
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