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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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Melodic death/black metal band from Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands, active since 2009 and delivering Scandinavian-influenced melodic extremity from the volcanic Atlantic archipelago. Their decade-plus output represents the Canary Islands' extreme metal contingent.
Black metal/crust punk band from Helsinki, active since 2015 with an infamously long and provocative Finnish compound name. Their raw crossover of black metal and crust punk delivers abrasive, politically charged extremity.
Stoner/doom metal band from London, formed in 2023 and blending Lovecraftian horror themes with the fuzzed-out heaviness of stoner doom. Their name fuses cannabis culture with Cthulhu mythos, pointing to a sound that is both cosmically dread-laden and haze-soaked.
Carson City, Nevada's Kut-Pile has been fusing thrash metal and metalcore since 2017 in the high desert of Nevada's capital. Their crossover approach has the bruising energy of the former and the rhythmic aggression of the latter, forged in a city that operates on the margins of both the music industry and the American West.
Exploring the depths of black metal, this Hungarian outfit from Budapest has been refining their craft. Their sound hinges on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities, delivered with dogged persistence.
Parisian blackened doom and death metal project formed in 2020, drawing from a wide spectrum of extreme metal influences including Bathory, Darkspace, and Amon Amarth. Their releases Abyssal Realms and Rulers and Abismal Satyricon blend black, death, and doom metal with pagan and folk elements into a dark, expansive sound.
Vilyuchinsk-based atmospheric black metal and black metal act, active since 2021 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Death metal/grindcore/deathcore band from Tuttlingen in Baden-Wurttemberg, formed in 2024 and delivering a triple-threat of extreme metal subgenres. Their provocative Swabian dialect name signals an irreverent approach to brutal music.
Madrid black metal project active since 2005, delivering two decades of dark, aggressive compositions from Spain's capital. Their longevity makes them one of the oldest surviving black metal acts in the Madrid underground.
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