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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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French one-man black metal project Orbios conjures raw, atmospheric compositions steeped in misanthropy and solitude. The project's lo-fi aesthetic and repetitive structures create a trance-like quality characteristic of the French black metal underground.
Metz-based Orbis traffics in the low-end rumble where stoner metal meets doom, piling fuzz-drenched riffs atop lumbering rhythms. Their heavy, smoke-filled grooves recall the desert-baked heaviness of Sleep and Electric Wizard filtered through a French sensibility.
Orbis Daemonium weave alchemy, gnosticism, and esoteric poetry into cold, atmospheric black metal, building a body of work that feels more like a grimoire than a standard discography. Across releases including "Opus Contra Naturam" (2019) and "Veil of Illusions" (2022), the quartet of Wellison Xavier, Willie Lawrence, Daniel Alcantara, and Jefferson Barbosa have carved out a consistently hermetic and uncompromising sound.
Eksjo melodic death/groove metal act active since 2013, hailing from a small Smaland town with outsized metal ambitions. Over a decade they have developed a style that fuses Gothenburg-school melodeath with groove metal's rhythmic punch, building a growing international following.
New York's Orbital Frame marry technical precision to the melodic sweep of Scandinavian death metal, constructing songs with the structural clarity of machines and the emotional weight of something far messier. Their technical/melodic approach stands out in a cluttered field.
Raw black metal project from Yakutsk, Russia — one of the coldest cities on Earth — active since 2013. The extreme cold of their Siberian hometown makes a fitting backdrop for their lo-fi, frozen-sounding raw black metal.
German melodic death metal band from Dippoldiswalde in Saxony, formed in 2020. Named after the Tolkien creature, their fantasy-themed approach channels melodic sophistication through death metal's aggressive framework.
Doom metal band with death metal influences from Świdnica, Poland, active since 2008. Their nature-themed name frames nearly two decades of ponderous doom from the Lower Silesian town.
Heavy metal act from Karvina in the Czech-Polish border region, formed in 2022. Drawing from the industrial Silesian landscape, their traditional heavy metal carries a working-class directness uncommon in the genre.
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