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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Brutal death metal act from Burnley in Lancashire, formed in 2016 and trafficking in the genre's most extreme sonic violence. Their approach favors relentless blast beats, guttural vocals, and technical riffing pushed to punishing extremes.
Raw black metal project from London, formed in 2021 and dedicated to the lo-fi, unprocessed end of the black metal spectrum. The project strips the genre down to its most primitive and hostile essentials.
Kyiv, Ukraine — sludge metal and stoner metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2017, they deal in desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
In existence since 2024, this Como Black Metal, Death Metal, and Melodic Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Death metal band from the Lemi/Lappeenranta area of southeastern Finland, active since 2015 with a Finnish name meaning "faceless." Their anonymous, identity-obscuring approach matches the guttural anonymity of their death metal.
Plaistow, New Hampshire's Kataan blend the melodic interplay of Scandinavian black metal with the brutality of death metal, carving out a dense, emotionally charged sound since their 2021 formation.
Technical precision meets melodic depth in the Chantilly, Virginia outfit Katabasis, who have been constructing intricate melodic death metal with a strong ear for arrangement since 2022.
Death/thrash metal band from Rottweil in Baden-Wurttemberg, formed in 2022 and named after the ancient Greek concept of descent into the underworld. Their sound fuses death metal's brutality with thrash's relentless pace.
Lidköping/Skövde's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this black metal unit is among them — wielding venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. The compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
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