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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Knoxville's Matt Harnett approaches progressive metal as a solo composer and instrumentalist, letting long, sprawling compositions breathe and evolve at their own pace. His work since 2013 sits in the quieter, more cerebral corner of prog metal's broad spectrum.
Matt Harvey is a California-based musician who founded the death metal and grindcore band Exhumed in 1990 at the age of fifteen, guiding the band through more than three decades and multiple stylistic evolutions rooted in the carnage-obsessed tradition of Carcass and Repulsion. Beyond Exhumed, Harvey co-founded Gruesome, a project explicitly designed to pay homage to Death's early albums Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy, along with additional projects including Pounder and Left to Die. His prolific involvement across multiple death metal acts has made him one of the central figures in West Coast American extreme metal.
Hard-hitting Heavy Metal out of Texas.
A grindcore project from Italy, Mattatoio — meaning 'slaughterhouse' — has been delivering short, brutal compositions since 2015. The project channels the visceral imagery of its name into rapid-fire blasts of noise.
Drawing on the crushing elevation of their Colorado Springs home, Matterhorn plays sludge and doom metal that sounds like altitude sickness made audible. Since 2019, their slow, suffocating riffs have made them a standout in a Mountain West scene not typically known for either style.
A melodic death metal act from Warsaw, Matternysh has been delivering harmonized aggression since 2016. The band brings Scandinavian-influenced melodeath to the Polish capital.
Mattugur is a melodic black metal band from Wąbrzeźno, Poland, formed in 2016. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
A four-piece black metal band from Svishtov, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, formed in 2015 and active until 2016, whose debut EP 'The Return of Black Metal' offered straightforward second-wave worship with tremolo-picked riffs, fast tempos, and raspy vocals across three tracks running just over eleven minutes. Reviewers noted the execution was passionate and well-crafted even as it stayed firmly within established genre conventions.
Matushka is a post-black metal band from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2013 that incorporates atmospheric and introspective elements into their blackened foundation. Their sound moves beyond traditional black metal boundaries, weaving expansive post-metal textures with tremolo-picked melodies and contemplative passages.
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