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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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German black metal band from Mainz, active since 2018. Their Latin name, meaning 'rise' or 'origin,' channels the dawning, emergent character of their Rhineland black metal.
Cambrai's Oruga generates a suffocating wall of low-tuned heaviness where sludge, stoner, and doom metal converge into a crushing mass. Their riff-worshipping approach piles distortion upon distortion, creating tar-thick grooves that move with glacial inevitability.
Black metal project from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2019. The project delivers hostile black metal from the Hungarian capital.
Black metal project from Trevi in Italy's Umbria region, active since 2015. The project channels black metal from the medieval hilltop town in central Italy.
La Crosse, Wisconsin's Orwell have been churning out melodic death metal and metalcore hybrids since 2000, weaving sharp melodic leads through abrasive, groove-driven riffs. Their sound sits at the intersection of Scandinavian melodeath sensibility and American hardcore aggression.
German black metal band from Eckental in Franconia, active since 2020. Their cryptic name adds an element of mystery to their Franconian black metal approach.
Os Capial channel the interior São Paulo caipira culture into abrasive grindcore, with lyrics, imagery, and speech all rooted in the rural working-class world their name pays tribute to. Since their 2015 debut Nossa Grindroça Querida they have maintained a prolific pace, releasing titles like Grindiagem Deatherra (2016), Emboscada Caipira de Plasma (2017), and Chichá - Sterculea Foetida (2018), each one hammering the collision of regional identity and extreme noise.
Miranda de Ebro death/thrash metal act from the Castile-Burgos border, active since 2013. Over a decade in this small northern Spanish city, they have built a body of extreme metal rooted in both death and thrash traditions.
German black metal band from Cologne, active since 2017. Their name, meaning 'infamous kiss,' channels the treacherous, Judas-like character of their Rhineland black metal.
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