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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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Palermo industrial rock/metal act with black metal elements, formed in 2018 and fusing mechanical rhythms with extreme metal intensity from Sicily's capital. Their hybrid approach bridges industrial's cold precision with black metal's primal fury.
Udine groove metal and hardcore outfit formed in 2017, delivering crushing rhythmic weight with hardcore's raw energy from Friuli. Their aggressive approach channels the physical impact of both genres.
Taranto death metal project launched in 2026, representing the newest wave of extreme metal from Puglia's industrial port city. Their brutal approach channels death metal's most punishing traditions.
Next in Line is a melodic death metal band from Kotka, active since 2019. The band delivers Scandinavian melodeath from the southeastern Finnish coast.
Austin, Texas hardcore outfit Next of Kin bring fierce energy to the Lone Star State's growing heavy music scene, delivering urgent, no-frills hardcore punk built for sweat-soaked basement shows and festival stages alike. The band's raw, aggressive sound draws from classic hardcore traditions while channeling the intensity of their local scene into short, explosive bursts of controlled chaos.
Next Round is a crossover thrash band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2014. They deliver pit-ready punk-thrash energy from Russia's second city.
Blackened death metal supergroup uniting members of Nyogthaeblisz and Hellvetron under the Ordo Satanae Imperium banner. Debut on Hells Headbangers.
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Nexus 6 is a band from Albacete that has undergone dramatic evolution since 2008, shifting from neoclassical ambient through technical black metal to progressive metal and rock. Named after the replicant model from Blade Runner, the project's restless reinvention mirrors the film's exploration of identity.
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