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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Cornwall's Oubliette channels the isolation of England's southwestern tip into claustrophobic black metal that feels genuinely remote and forsaken. Their atmospheric approach evokes the desolate moorlands and rugged coastline of their home region.
OUDN — short for Our Ultimate Dying Nightmare — blend melodic modern death metal with groove-driven riffing and a polished production sensibility. Their catalog includes the EP Save Us from Ourselves (2016) and the full-length Time to Decay (2018), which display a sound that favors rhythmic punch and melodic hooks over pure extremity.
Formed in Fresno, California in 2021, Our Ascending Kingdom deal in the collision of black and death metal — blastbeats and tremolo riffing shot through with death metal's visceral brutality. The Central Valley heat seems to fuel a relentless, caustic intensity that sets them apart from the coastal scene. A young act with a vicious early ambition.
Out of Rockville, Maryland since 2011, Our Days Are Numbered fuse melodic death metal's harmonic tension with metalcore's aggressive rhythmic churn. They balance hooks and heaviness with the kind of precision that comes from over a decade of refining their craft. The mid-Atlantic scene runs thick with this hybrid sound, and they've made it their own.
Rooted in Montclair, New Jersey since 2005, Our Dying Souls have spent two decades navigating the intersection of melodic death metal and metalcore — a path that demands both technical discipline and emotional urgency. Their longevity in a crowded scene speaks to a persistent drive to push past the genre's boundaries. Few bands from the Garden State have stayed this committed to the form.
Industrial death/doom metal band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2013. Their nihilistic name frames their crushing blend of industrial textures, death metal brutality, and doom metal's oppressive weight.
Warrington's Our Great Adversary delivers fierce black metal with a confrontational edge, combining blast-driven aggression with darker, more atmospheric passages. Their compositions balance relentless intensity with moments of brooding menace.
German melodic death metal band from Cologne, formed in 2022 and channeling harmonic precision from the Rhineland. Their name evokes the dormant, sleeping menace that awakens through their melodeath.
Named after the legendary ghost ship whose crew perished under mysterious circumstances, Ourang Medan channel that maritime dread into slow, crushing sludge and doom built around themes of cosmic horror and the occult. Their debut full-length Lords of Eternal Seas (2016), recorded at Estúdio Warsong in Natal, captures a dense, ritualistic heaviness that earned them recognition as one of the northeast's standout underground acts.
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