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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Black metal project from Juuka in North Karelia, formed in 2024 with a Finnish name meaning "slag" or "dross." Their sound channels the industrial waste imagery of their name through raw, atmospheric black metal.
Named for the ancient Sumerian underworld, Lexington, Kentucky's Kur has been dealing in blackened death metal since 2021. Their music draws on mythology to frame an unrelenting sonic darkness — grinding, malevolent, and rooted in both genres' most corrosive qualities.
Heavy metal band from Narpio in Ostrobothnia, formed in 2024 and delivering traditional metal from Finland's Swedish-speaking coastal community. Their curatorial name suggests a carefully considered approach to classic heavy metal.
Rising from Alblasserdam's metal underground, this Dutch act forges Death Metal and Melodic Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Proof that the underground never sleeps, this black metal act from Belgrade traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2019, they've built a catalog that reflects a scene forged in the crucible of the former Yugoslavia.
Kurcuma is a thrash and groove metal band from Don Bosco, Buenos Aires, formed in 2021. They released two demos in their debut year — "Ojos Rojos" and "Las Puertas" — and followed up with a self-titled EP in August 2022 available on Bandcamp. The band operates as an independent act rooted in the Buenos Aires underground metal scene.
When Kurgaall emerged in 2017 from Verbania (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola), they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Active in Krasnodar since 2021, this Russian act forges Black Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Melodic death metal band from the rural Odsherred area of Denmark, formed in 2021 and named after the immortal warrior from Highlander. Their sound channels Scandinavian melodeath traditions with a distinctly Danish character.
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