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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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French heavy metal project formed in 2023, featuring vocalist Gus Monsanto alongside guitarists, bass, drums, and keyboards, released through M&O Music. Their debut Foreword showcases a polished, classic heavy metal sound with strong vocal melodies and symphonic keyboard textures.
Atmospheric black metal project from Leipzig, formed in 2023 and building expansive, immersive compositions from Saxony's cultural capital. Their sound layers atmospheric textures over black metal's raw foundation.
Krystal Tears was a melodic heavy metal and hard rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2000. The quintet — Roberto Sans (vocals), Davis Ramay (guitar), Diego Padilha (bass), Rigel Romeu (keyboards), and Leonardo Peccatu (drums) — released a self-titled demo in 2001 and their debut full-length A Brand New Life in 2005, a 13-track album running over an hour in length.
Krytik is a death metal band from Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2020. Their debut album Mutilated was released in June 2020, establishing their place in the state's active underground extreme metal scene.
Crafting their sound since 2023, this Massafra Heavy Metal and Thrash Metal outfit delivers crossover-tinged fury with punk's directness and metal's complexity. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Firmly rooted in heavy metal, this Italian actfrom Verona delivers galloping rhythms and fist-pumping anthems without compromise. They've been at it since 2017, and melody and muscle share equal billing in their compositions.
Folk/death metal band from Przemysl in southeastern Poland near the Ukrainian border, formed in 2022. Their sound weaves Slavic folk traditions into a death metal framework, drawing from the region's rich cross-cultural heritage.
New York experimental death metal project Kryvydya has been bending the genre's conventions since forming in 2022. Their music treats death metal's structural brutality as a jumping-off point for dissonance, abstraction, and experimentation that resists easy categorization.
Melodic death metal band from Laon in northern France, active since 2012 and channeling the Gothenburg school of melodic extremity. Their sound pairs aggressive death metal vocals with sweeping melodic guitar leads and dynamic song structures.
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