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Hungarian raw black metal project from Zalaegerszeg, active since 2012 and channeling lo-fi hostility. Their sound embraces the unpolished, primitive character of raw black metal.
Named for one of the world's most venomous scorpions, Melbourne, Florida's Leiurus inject progressive ambition into their blackened death metal, taking the genre into longer, more compositionally complex territory since forming in 2022. The venom is just as potent for being patient.
French progressive melodic death metal band from Paris, formed in 2022 and blending technical sophistication with melodic hooks. Their approach layers progressive complexity over melodic death metal's harmonic foundation.
Lelantos is an atmospheric funeral doom metal one-man project from Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, founded in 2016 by multi-instrumentalist Bruno B. Braga. The project released its debut full-length Akrasia in February 2017 through Loneravn Records, a five-part conceptual work featuring ethereal keyboards and clean vocals that explores themes of loneliness and the limits of human will. The band's name is drawn from Greek mythology, where Lelantos was the titan of air, with its root meaning "to move unseen."
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Hungarian progressive death metal band from Szeged, crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2008. Named after Stanislaw Lem, their approach brings science-fiction-inspired vision to progressive death metal.
Ukrainian thrash/groove metal band from Lviv, newly formed in 2025 and delivering aggressive riffing from western Ukraine. Their name references the historic German name for Lviv, connecting to the city's multicultural heritage.
Lembrando os Mortos is a black metal project from Chuí, a border town between Brazil and Uruguay, formed in 2013. Their debut demo Ritual de Despedida was released the same year, subsequently issued on CD by Metalthrone Productions and on professional tape by the German label SchattenKult Productionen in 2014. The project has since released additional material including Cerimonias ao Abismo and Na imensa negridão da alma, continuing to explore cold, lo-fi black metal from one of Brazil's southernmost cities.
Lena Scissorhands is best known as the founding vocalist and primary public face of Infected Rain, the Moldovan metal band she formed in 2008 in Chișinău that blends metalcore, nu metal, and electronic elements with her versatile combination of clean singing and aggressive screaming. Under her own name, Scissorhands began releasing solo material in 2025, with the debut single "Believe" presenting a more melodic hard rock direction. She is also a vocalist in the American alternative metal project Death Dealer Union.
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