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Port Townsend, Washington's Lickity Split arrived in 2024 with traditional heavy metal in tow, their seaside Olympic Peninsula hometown lending a rugged, blue-collar edge to the classic genre.
Spanish black metal project from Alicante, channeling raw darkness since 2020. Their sound embraces black metal's hostile atmosphere through a Mediterranean underground lens.
Swedish post-black metal band from Umea, formed in 2023 and blending atmospheric beauty with blackened intensity. Their name, meaning 'the suffering' in Swedish, captures the anguished core of their post-black approach.
Swedish black metal band from Jonkoping, formed in 2024 and named after the Czech village infamous for a WWII massacre. Their historically charged name signals the gravity and darkness of their black metal.
German funeral doom metal project from Dinkelsbuhl, founded in 2021 by Benjamin Hampel and debuting with the 2025 album 'Lindisfarne.' The three-track release features glacially-paced compositions with both harsh and clean vocals across fifteen minutes of crushing funeral doom.
Norwegian black metal band from Bergen, formed in 2021 and channeling the city's storied black metal heritage. Their Old Norse name, meaning 'shield of protection,' connects them to Bergen's legendary black metal lineage.
Lied des Waldes — German for "Song of the Forest" — is an atmospheric black metal project from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Their 2017 album "Withering Shades of Pale" is a seven-track release blending raw black metal with post-black metal elements and acoustic interludes, drawing on nature-themed lyrical imagery rooted in the German cultural heritage of the region.
Stamford, Connecticut's Liege Lord are one of the East Coast's finest power and speed metal artifacts, sharpening their twin-guitar attack since 1987 into a body of work that still cleaves clean.
Hungarian progressive/power metal band from Debrecen, blending technical ambition with anthemic melodies since 2015. Their approach channels the best of both genres through sophisticated arrangements.
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