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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this groove metal act from Ascoli Piceno traffics in chugging, syncopated riffs built for maximum head-nodding impact. Since 1976, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
San Jose, California's Kevel have been in the heavy fuzz game since 2014, pairing stoner rock's psychedelic warmth with doom metal's glacial pace for a sound that's hazy, heavy, and fully hypnotic.
Kevin Douglas is a self-taught instrumental guitarist from Sergipe, Brazil, working primarily in a rock and metal context. His Bandcamp catalogue includes the albums Rotten Fingers, Outlandish, Skin Spots, and Miscellaneous, showcasing a versatile approach to progressive and instrumental metal. He also produces gear-review content on YouTube, writing original tracks to accompany each video.
Brutal death metal/grindcore band from Cordoba in Andalusia, active since 2000 and delivering a quarter-century of extreme sonic violence. Their armored-skin name reflects the impenetrable, punishing nature of their quarter-century catalog.
New York's Kevorkian have been at the intersection of death and groove metal since 2013, fusing the genre's extremity with the mid-paced, headbanging punch that groove metal demands.
Also hailing from New York, Kevorkianesque take the brutal death metal template and push it to its logical extremes — relentless, pulverizing, and technically accomplished in the service of maximum punishment since 2016.
Finnish black metal project formed in 2018, with a name meaning "spring sacrifice" in Finnish. Their sound channels ancient pagan ritual and seasonal mythology through raw black metal.
Black metal project from Thessaloniki, formed in 2025 and emerging from one of Greece's most vital cities for extreme metal. Their sound channels the raw aggression and dark atmosphere of the genre's most committed practitioners.
Key of Salomon is a Brazilian black metal band whose discography includes the demos Summoning of the Night Spirits (1998) and Illecebrarum Infernalis (1999), both self-released. The band operated in the raw, underground tradition of Brazilian black metal and has since split up.
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