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Heavy metal band from Agder, Norway, active since 1995, making them one of the longest-running heavy metal acts in southern Norway. Three decades of pride in their craft mark them as true veterans.
Pride Is Murder is a slamming brutal death metal band from San Salvador, El Salvador, formed in 2017. The band released their debut EP Destripada Masa Corporal in February 2018, delivering five tracks of visceral, gore-drenched slams driven by guttural vocals and pulverizing drum work. They operate independently and represent one of the more extreme acts to emerge from the Salvadoran underground metal scene.
Pridian are an Estonian metalcore quartet from Tartu, formed in 2018, blending polyrhythmic progressive structures with electronic textures and cinematic dynamics. After years of independent releases, the band signed to Century Media Records in 2024 and released their debut full-length Venetian Dark in May 2025, representing one of the few Baltic acts to break into the international metalcore market.
Black and death metal band from Swiebodzice, Poland, formed in 2020, delivering blackened death metal from the Lower Silesian foothills. Their sacred name contrasts with the unholy nature of their extreme metal.
Emerging from Boise in 2025, Priestcraft is a black metal project operating at the outer edge of Idaho's nascent extreme metal scene. Their chosen name suggests an irreverence toward religious authority that feeds the hostility at the core of their sound. Still early in their existence, Priestcraft appears to be one of the more promising new voices in the region's underground.
A 2025 black metal project from Lower Saxony, Priestermord — 'priest murder' in German — arrives with anticlerical fury channeled through raw, uncompromising compositions. Their confrontational name establishes an aesthetic of blasphemous aggression from the outset.
Saarbrücken's Priestess has been weaving gothic elegance with power metal muscle since 2005, creating a sound that balances dark atmosphere with triumphant melody. Their two decades in the Saarland scene have produced a mature take on the gothic-power metal hybrid.
Richmond's Priests of Prometheus have been building a death metal identity since 2020, drawing on the city's fertile extreme music underground to forge something that refuses easy categorization — Metal-Archives tags them as 'Death Metal, Various,' which is accurate to a project willing to let the music sprawl. The mythological reference in their name speaks to an ambition that reaches beyond genre conventions. Richmond's scene has consistently produced bands that care about craft, and Priests of Prometheus fit that tradition.
Black metal band from Brittany, France, formed in 2021, whose name means 'priory' in French. They channel the medieval monastic darkness of their Breton surroundings through atmospheric black metal.
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