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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Texas black metal project Lay Down and Rot embodies their name fully — unornamented, suffocating darkness delivered with the kind of bleak conviction that the lone star state's underground does best.
Louisville's Lay Your Ghost to Rest craft atmospheric black metal that feels shaped by the Ohio River Valley's murky atmosphere — sweeping, melancholic, and haunted since 2023.
Portuguese heavy metal band from Odivelas/Pontinha, forging classic heavy metal with Iberian intensity. Their straightforward name matches the direct, riff-driven character of their approach.
Swedish melodic heavy metal band from Jonkoping, crafting hook-driven anthems since 2012. Their sound channels the classic Scandinavian melodic metal tradition through powerful songwriting.
Greek heavy/power metal band from Athens, active since 2012 and channeling the Hellenic metal tradition. Their sound builds on soaring melodies and powerful riffs in the lineage of Greece's storied metal scene.
Lazaro is a thrash metal band from Rafael Castillo, Buenos Aires, founded by guitarist Jorge Moreno following his departure from the long-running Argentine thrash act Serpentor. The band carries on the tradition of socially and politically charged thrash metal from the Greater Buenos Aires underground scene.
Richmond, Indiana's Lazarus Complex specialize in epic doom metal's stateliest traditions — slow, towering compositions that demand patience and reward it with genuine grandeur.
Hungarian sludge/groove metal band from Budapest, delivering abrasive heaviness since 2011. Their resurrection-themed name contrasts with the punishing, down-tuned character of their sludge-groove sound.
Los Angeles' Lazer pull from heavy metal and hard rock's shared DNA, delivering music that prioritizes hooks and attitude over genre purity — unpretentious and hard-hitting since 2009.
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