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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Swedish black metal band from Dalarna, active since 2019. Their archaic Swedish name, meaning 'weariness of life,' channels existential exhaustion through raw black metal from Sweden's heartland.
Cleveland goregrind practitioners Ligament arrived in 2025 tearing through death metal and goregrind with anatomical precision, adding a fresh dose of visceral noise to the city's proud extreme metal lineage.
Finnish death/doom metal and noise act from Helsinki, formed in 2023 and merging extreme metal with harsh noise elements. Their experimental approach pushes death/doom into abrasive, unconventional territory.
London-based death/thrash metal band formed in 2016, combining death metal's heaviness with thrash's velocity. Their sound channels the combined aggression of both genres through precise, relentless performances.
Miami's Light at the End of the Tunnel subvert their hopeful name with post-black metal that burns cold and atmospheric, a 2025 arrival filtering sun-state humidity through Nordic bleakness.
Moorpark, California's Light Being strip black metal to its raw spiritual core, their music reaching inward through dissonance and tremolo toward something genuinely transcendent since 2016.
Serbian death metal band from Belgrade, delivering raw brutality since 2022. Their name channels the concept of light denied, reflecting the dark, oppressive character of their death metal.
German death metal project from Karlsruhe, newly formed in 2025 and bringing fresh brutality to the scene. Their sound draws from death metal's foundational heaviness with a focus on uncompromising aggression.
German doom/sludge metal band from Hof, formed in 2022 and delivering crushing, low-tempo heaviness. Their dual-genre approach merges doom's monolithic riffs with sludge metal's abrasive, suffocating texture.
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