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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Melodic power metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2010. Their long-running project delivers anthemic, melody-driven power metal from the Russian capital.
Belgian heavy metal band from De Haan with roots back to 1996, making them one of Belgium's longer-running metal acts. Named after a Tolkien fortress, their three decades of heavy metal represent enduring commitment.
Jihlava thrash/death metal stalwarts active since 2005, representing two decades of extreme metal from the Vysocina Highlands. Their longevity in the Czech underground speaks to a dedication that predates many of their contemporaries.
Fuzzed-out Southern / Stoner Metal / Rock from Fort Worth.
Orthodox Straight Edge is a Nashville, Tennessee metalcore band formed in 2011 by vocalist Adam Easterling during his final year of high school, built around the band's commitment to straight-edge values and a sound that fuses metalcore aggression with nu-metal urgency. The lineup also includes guitarists Austin Evans and Ben Touchberry, bassist Shiloh Krebs, and drummer Mike White. Their music draws from Nashville's local hardcore scene while incorporating a theatrical vocal approach and the blastbeat-driven intensity of extreme metalcore.
Occult death metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2019 and signed to The Sinister Flame label, with members from the band Domains. Their albums Novus Lux Dominus and Ater Ignis deliver serpentine, ceremonial death metal distinguished from caverncore by twisted songwriting and eldritch atmospherics across 45-minute compositions.
Brooklyn's Orthopedic Cranial Encavement announced themselves in 2021 with a name that functions as its own content advisory — a grindcore act whose music is as compressed, chaotic, and medically inadvisable as their moniker suggests. New York noise colliding with blast-beat precision.
Orthostat play a dense, riff-heavy style of death metal with an ear for odd time signatures and shifting dynamics, from doom-laden crawls to blastbeat surges. The band's 2019 debut full-length Monolith of Time, recorded at Hell Frost Studio by vocalist-guitarist David Lago, weaves its themes of ancient civilizations and cosmic scale into an album that reviewers praised for being unusually memorable within the old-school death metal field.
Black metal project from Warsaw, Poland, active since 2018. The project delivers hostile black metal from the Polish capital.
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