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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Slovak heavy metal band from Trnava, forging classic heavy metal since 2019. Named after the red spider lily, their floral identity channels beauty and death through traditional metal.
LYLVC are a Raleigh, North Carolina band whose music fuses hard rock, rap metal, alternative rock, and pop-conscious hooks into a hybrid built around contrast. Pronounced "lilac," the group uses the interplay between a female singer and a male rapper as its central identity, letting melodic choruses, hip-hop cadence, and guitar-driven heaviness push against each other. LYLVC fit hard rock and metal-adjacent scope through rap metal, alternative metal elements, and touring connections with heavy acts such as Atreyu, Pop Evil, Fame on Fire, and Life of Agony. Their songs tend to favor polished production, big choruses, and rhythmic verses over underground rawness, but the guitars and drums keep the music anchored in rock rather than pure pop crossover. The band works best when the vocal tradeoffs heighten tension, giving the songs multiple emotional angles within a single arrangement. Themes of alienation, resilience, conflict, and self-definition run through the material, matching a sound that wants to be both accessible and forceful. LYLVC represent a current version of rap-rock hybridity, less tied to one 1990s template than to streaming-era genre mixing, but still dependent on riffs, hooks, and stage energy.
German melodic power/thrash metal and hard rock act from Reppenstedt, blending multiple styles since 2021. Their versatile approach spans the melodic spectrum from power metal anthems to thrash aggression and hard rock groove.
French thrash/death metal band from Nimes, merging thrash velocity with death metal brutality since 2020. Their sound channels the combined aggression of both genres from Provence.
Italian stoner/doom metal band from Asti in Piedmont, delivering hazy heaviness since 2001. Their deliberately misspelled name, combining 'wisdom' with 'doom,' reflects over two decades of groove-laden stoner doom.
Lymphangiomas was a sludge metal and grindcore band from Barranquilla, Colombia, active from 2022 to 2025 and released through Aborto de Perra Records. During their brief run the band issued several EPs and splits, including "64 Traxx," "Cancrum Oris," and "Gangrena De Fournier Vulvar," all released in 2022.
British brutal death metal/grindcore band from Truro, formed in 2023 and delivering savage extremity from Cornwall. Their medical name signals the diseased, pathological character of their deathgrind assault.
Russian groove/southern metal band from Oryol, delivering bourbon-soaked heaviness since 2020. Their name channels aggressive, confrontational imagery through the rhythmic power of southern-tinged groove metal.
Instrumental melodic black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, crafting atmospheric post-black metal compositions since 2019. Their album 'Ninatt Gutul' features seven vocal-free tracks that blend atmospheric and post-black metal into expansive, meditative soundscapes.
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