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Houston's Old Skull deliver sludge metal with the swampy, humid weight of the Gulf Coast baked into every riff. Since 2020, they've embraced the slow crush of the genre's heaviest tendencies, building songs around punishment and perseverance.
Dungeon synth and black metal project from Lahti, Finland, active since 2017. The project oscillates between atmospheric dungeon synth fantasy and raw black metal darkness.
Old Stove cook up a thick, fuzz-coated brand of stoner rock powered by the guitar and vocals of Gabriel Freitas, with Lucas Braga on bass and Murilo Costa on drums locking in a heavy, desert-scorched groove. Their 2015 debut album #1 opened with the slow-burning "Place Pigalle" and showcased a band clearly schooled in the low-slung psychedelia of the genre's American forebears.
Old Throne is the one-man black metal vehicle of Fernando Count Old, a project he has driven since 2007 through a series of demos, EPs, and full-lengths steeped in anti-religious contempt and raw, uncompromising misanthropy. The 2013 album O Novo Mundo Pagão stands as a centrepiece of his catalogue, released through both the Japanese label Weird Truth Productions and domestic outlets.
Italian black metal project active since 2017. The project delivers atmospheric black metal with a nature-inspired, arboreal thematic focus.
French black/death metal project formed in 2024, among the newest entries in the country's vast extreme metal underground. Their antiquated English name signals a reverence for old-school occultism channeled through modern extremity.
Steeped in lo-fi grime and occult atmosphere, Olde Witchery channels the rawness of early second-wave Scandinavian black metal through a distinctly French lens. Their demo material and "L'Offrande de la Sylve Noire" conjure dense, forest-dwelling aggression with tremolo-picked melodies buried beneath layers of tape hiss.
Older Jack are a heavy metal and hard rock band from the German-heritage city of Pomerode in Santa Catarina, whose album Metal Uber Alles — a tongue-in-cheek nod to the genre's grand traditions — arrived as a limited CDr release. Their sound sits squarely in the classic heavy metal tradition, drawing on the melodic riff-driven energy that defined the genre in its formative decades.
Black metal project with roots in Wales before relocating to Sao Paulo, active since 2019. This transatlantic trajectory gives their black metal an unusual cultural duality, blending Celtic bleakness with South American intensity.
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