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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Sludge/doom metal band from the Baltic port city of Greifswald in northeastern Germany, formed in 2016 and delivering heavy, slow-burning compositions. Their sound carries the bleak, windswept atmosphere of the Mecklenburg coast.
Death metal/crust punk band from Ulm in Baden-Wurttemberg, formed in 2025 and fusing death metal's guttural intensity with crust's raw, D-beat-driven energy. Their crossover approach channels punk's immediacy through extreme metal's heaviness.
Kavla is a heavy metal and hard rock band from São Paulo, Brazil, with origins dating to 1992. The band released the album Dream or Reality in 1995 and returned after a hiatus with Surreal in 2008, building a catalog rooted in melodic traditional heavy metal. Their current lineup features Thiago Cicilini on vocals, Sandro Silva and Fábio Silva on guitars, Carlos Ceroni on keyboards, Marcelo Eiger on bass, and Nina Pará on drums.
Part of the island that birthed Sólstafir and Misthyrming, this act channels stoner metal with a focus on fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Formed in 2025, based in Reykjavík, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Kavra is a doom/sludge and black metal band from Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, formed in 2002 and still active. Their sound shifted from early doom and sludge toward black metal and experimental territory, documented across releases such as Extraños días de Pandra (2010) and the EP Nekuon Kataethneoton (2017).
Hamburg sludge/post-metal/hardcore quartet formed in 2016, described as channeling "natural and visceral darkness" and "amphetamine-loaded unpredictable destructive rage." Their seven releases and live recordings showcase a four-piece navigating dangerous landscapes of human and musical abysses.
Hammond, Louisiana's Kavyk have been perfecting their brand of blackened death metal since 2015, conjuring a suffocating atmosphere that feels unmistakably rooted in the damp heat of the Deep South.
Moravian black metal project formed in 2019, channeling the dark forests and rolling hills of the Czech countryside into atmospheric black metal. Their sound draws from the Eastern European black metal tradition with a distinctly Moravian character.
Andalusian black metal project formed in 2023, pairing the genre's cold aggression with an incongruously cute Japanese-inspired name. Their irreverent aesthetic masks genuinely dark, uncompromising black metal.
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