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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Grindcore/goregrind band from Jyvaskyla, formed in 2022 and delivering the most extreme, gory sonic violence central Finland has to offer. Their ironically positive name contrasts with the repulsive intensity of their goregrind.
Part of Holland's dense concentration of metal talent, this act channels metalcore and thrash metal with a focus on breakneck tempos and razor-sharp riff attacks. Formed in 2009, based in Hengelo, every track is a masterclass in controlled chaos and kinetic energy.
The Serbian city of Belgrade serves as headquarters for this heavy metal, speed metal, and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes raw, unbridled velocity channeling early 80s metal fire. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Parisian sludge metal act delivering crushing, low-end-heavy riffage with tracks like "Ass Blasted" and "Smoothbore" that speak to their abrasive, no-frills approach. Their sound wallows in the thick, distorted tones and punishing tempos characteristic of the sludge genre.
When Kugurak emerged in 2021 from Arkhangelsk, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal, speed metal, and thrash metal — all pre-thrash intensity with a melodic edge. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Black metal project from Lappeenranta in southeastern Finland, formed in 2018 with a Finnish name meaning "abyss" or "chasm." Their sound plunges into the deepest recesses of atmospheric black metal.
Tynda's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this progressive metal unit is among them — wielding labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Death metal and hardcore band from Reading, formed in 2022 and named after the sorcerer villain from Marvel's Conan comics. Their sound merges death metal's extremity with hardcore's directness and confrontational energy.
Kuld is a raw black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, active since 2015. Their full-length Beyond The Black Spell, released on April 12, 2015, spans nine tracks of stripped-back, lo-fi black metal and remains available on Bandcamp.
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