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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Scottish thrash metal/crossover band from Edinburgh, newly formed in 2025 and merging thrash speed with crossover punk energy. Their approach delivers mosh-ready aggression from Scotland's capital.
German groove metal band from Weikersheim, delivering rhythmically punishing heaviness since 2007. Their long-running commitment to groove metal has produced years of head-nodding, riff-centric material.
Luxúria de Lillith is a melodic black metal band from Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, founded in 1998 by drummer and vocalist Alysson Drakkar, who remains the sole original member across a lineup that has included more than 25 musicians over the years. The band writes all lyrics in Brazilian Portuguese and explores themes of vampirism, Satanism, and occultism across a catalogue that includes A Volúpia Infernal (2005) and Géhènnòm (2019), the latter recognized as a significant work in Brazilian black metal and the subject of academic study at the Federal University of Goiás.
German black metal project from Landau an der Isar, channeling Luciferian darkness since 2012. Their sound embraces raw black metal hostility through the lens of Bavarian underground extremity.
Madrid-based black metal project that evolved from raw black metal origins in 2016 into symphonic black metal territory. Their sonic evolution traces a path from stripped-down aggression to orchestrally enhanced darkness.
Luís Kalil is a Brazilian neoclassical heavy metal guitarist born in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, who relocated to Los Angeles to study at the Musicians Institute. He released his debut album Insight in 2015 at age 15, earning international recognition and becoming the first Brazilian guitarist to perform at EMGtv studios. His 2022 single Reverse Strike, featuring Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren, showcased his signature reverse tapping technique and placed him among the prominent names in contemporary shred guitar.
Italian black metal project from Veneto, active since 2017 and channeling northeastern Italian darkness. Their cryptic abbreviation adds mystery to their raw black metal approach.
French black metal project from Dunkirk, newly formed in 2025 and channeling raw intensity from the Channel coast. Their approach brings fresh hostility to the French black metal underground.
Swiss black metal band from Sion formed in 2013, crafting atypical, hypnotic, and spiritually virulent black metal with liturgical overtones. Their album 'Descensus Spiritus' conjures spectral atmospheres through extended compositions that evoke unearthly eminence from the void.
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