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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Doom/post-metal project from Alicante on Spain's Mediterranean coast, formed in 2024 and building heavy, atmospheric compositions. Their name's irreverent play on words belies a genuinely weighty approach to doom and post-metal.
Oregon black/death metal outfit Kesselschlacht arrived in 2024 with a militaristic edge baked into their very name — their music carries the same sense of brutal, overwhelming force.
Underground to the core, this avant-garde metal and black metal act from Pordenone traffics in icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Since 2017, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
Tualatin, Oregon's Kestrel have been honing their black metal craft since 2020, drawing on the grey Pacific Northwest sky for a sound that's atmospheric, raw, and deeply rooted in place.
Arvada, Colorado's Ketch drag doom and sludge together into something slow, filthy, and massive — formed in 2022, they deliver the kind of crushing riff-worship that makes the floor shake and the room feel smaller.
Keter is a death/thrash metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, featuring vocalist Bawdy, guitarists George Lessa and Yury Duplat, bassist Fagner Nascimento, and drummer Renato Corpse. The band released a self-titled demo in 2008 and the live EP Caçadores das Trevas in 2009, and was elected the best metal band in Bahia by readers of Whiplash in 2010. They also contributed a track to the Headhunter D.C. tribute compilation A Deathmetallic Brotherhood in Darkest Mourning for God (Mutilation Productions, 2016).
Drawing from Leżajsk/Rzeszów's musical fabric, this Polish act forges Death Metal, Experimental, and Technical Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Active in Saint Petersburg since 2025, this Russian act forges Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Five-piece melodic thrash outfit from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2017 with releases including Rise. Their sound blends thrash metal's aggressive velocity with metalcore's dynamic structures and groove metal's rhythmic punch.
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