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Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels black metal and death metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2017, based in Bologna, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
Karma is a progressive metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 1999 by guitarist Chico Dehira, whose debut album Inside the Eyes (2000) featured a guest appearance by André Matos and introduced bassist Felipe Andreoli, who would later join Angra. Their second album Leave Now!!! followed in 2005, cementing the band's place in the Brazilian progressive metal scene. After a hiatus of more than two decades, the band reunited for a live return in São Paulo in 2025.
From the small rural community of Bevent, Wisconsin, Karma Bloody Karma work the intersection of sludge, doom, and post-metal — music that sounds as weathered and vast as the Wisconsin interior since their 2023 formation. Heavy, slow, and emotionally unsparing.
Manchester, New Hampshire's Karma Dragon blend heavy metal swagger with thrash metal's kinetic aggression, a combination they've been refining since 2018 in the small but committed New England metal underground. Direct and hard-hitting without a wasted note.
Active in Moscow since 2016, this Russian act forges Power Metal built on Helloween-school optimism forged in twin-guitar brilliance. The emphasis falls on melody, speed, and unapologetic triumphalism.
Firmly rooted in thrash metal, this Ukrainian actfrom Sievierodonetsk delivers palm-muted barrages and speed-freak intensity without compromise. They've been at it since 2012, and their riffs arrive at terminal velocity with zero tolerance for filler.
Saint Petersburg'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. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
NWOBHM-influenced heavy metal and hard rock band from Congleton in Cheshire, formed in 2021 and reviving the galloping energy and twin-guitar harmonies of the original British heavy metal movement. Their sound channels the spirit of late-1970s and early-1980s UK metal.
Formed in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1994, Karma to Burn built their reputation on relentlessly heavy, largely wordless instrumental stoner rock that placed groove over theatrics. After a label dispute with Roadrunner Records forced them to briefly use a vocalist on their 1997 self-titled debut, the trio returned to purely instrumental territory on Wild, Wonderful Purgatory (1999) and Almost Heathen (2001), the latter widely cited alongside Kyuss and Monster Magnet as a defining document of the genre. Following a hiatus, the band reunited and released Appalachian Incantation (2010) and V (2011).
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