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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Bordeaux's Ouranos delivers fierce French black metal rooted in the second-wave tradition, with tremolo-picked melodies cutting through dense blast-beat storms. Their raw but purposeful production aesthetic preserves the genre's essential hostility while allowing melodic nuance to emerge.
San Francisco deathcore outfit Out for Blood launched in 2016 with the Bay Area's characteristic no-frills aggression baked in from the start. They lean into the genre's heaviest impulses — bone-crushing breakdowns and death metal riff velocity — without sacrificing intensity for polish. Their name says everything about their intent.
Los Angeles-based Out from Under have been forging heavy metal and hard rock since 2010, drawing from the deep well of classic metal that runs through Southern California's club circuit. Their sound sits squarely in the tradition of riff-driven, no-frills heaviness without chasing trends. A working band committed to the fundamentals of the form.
Swiss melodic death metal/metalcore band from Lausanne, combining harmonic precision with hardcore aggression since 2017. Their name suggests the boundary-breaking, transgressive character of their approach.
Kaluga melodic death metal act formed in 2024, the newest addition to this central Russian city's growing extreme metal output. Their approach applies Scandinavian melodeath conventions with a distinctly Russian melodic sensibility.
Kazincbarcika death metal act from northeastern Hungary, formed in 2024. Emerging from one of the country's most economically depressed industrial towns, their death metal carries the weight of post-industrial decline.
German heavy metal band from Dresden, active since 2010 and delivering classic Saxonian metal. Their name captures the boundary-crossing, sanity-defying character of their heavy metal approach.
Belarusian melodic death metal/deathcore hybrid from Minsk with roots reaching back to 2007, making them among the older extreme metal acts still active in the country. Their sound has evolved over nearly two decades from raw deathcore toward more melodically refined territory.
Los Angeles groove/thrash act Outbreak formed in 2013, channeling the city's long history of punishing metal into a sound built on syncopated riffs and relentless momentum. They fuse the groove metal's locked-in low-end swagger with thrash's forward aggression, a combination that hits hard in a live setting. The LA underground has been their training ground.
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