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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Italian sludge/doom metal band from Florence, delivering crushing, abrasive heaviness since 2008. Their name, meaning 'the bill' or 'the reckoning,' signals the punishing weight of their Tuscan doom.
La Hoguera is a heavy/thrash metal band from Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, led by vocalist and guitarist Eduardo "Negro" Cortéz, whose lyrics draw on surrealist imagery mixed with social commentary. Their album "Al acecho" was recorded at Crazy Rabbit Studio in Buenos Aires and released on March 25, 2023, presented live at La Moreno venue in Santa Fe.
Spanish atmospheric sludge/doom metal band from A Coruna, delivering crushing heaviness in Spanish since 2013. Their debut 'Holons' features four sprawling tracks of doom and sludge, with compositions stretching beyond ten minutes.
Italian heavy/doom metal band from Avellino, formed in 2017 and named after a Southern Italian witch figure. Their folkloric identity channels regional mythology through heavy, doom-laden metal.
Spanish brutal death metal act from Balenyo, unleashing punishing extremity since 2017. Their sound channels the genre's most visceral elements through relentless blast beats and guttural vocals.
Belgian sludge metal band from Ghent formed in 2021, describing their sound as an antidote against self-suffocation and quietism. Their discography includes the 'Battering Ram' EP and the 'Disorder' full-length, delivering heavy, cathartic sludge.
Russian depressive/post-black metal project from Irkutsk in Siberia, newly formed in 2025. Their French name, meaning 'the night,' channels nocturnal darkness through post-black metal's atmospheric framework from deep Siberia.
La Pleve is a thrash metal band from Iquitos, Peru, who drew lyrical inspiration from Amazonian society and the natural world around them. The band released their debut EP "Iritama Arukaka" and full-length "Sonido de Lupuna" in 2021, before splitting up. Their work stands as a rare example of thrash metal rooted in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon.
Spanish death metal/grindcore band from Ferrol, merging death metal's heaviness with grindcore's velocity since 2016. Their approach delivers short, savage bursts of extremity rooted in the Galician underground.
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