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Heavy and thrash metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2018, delivering classic heavy-thrash from the Bosphorus city. They bring over seven years of metal to the Turkish scene.
Savage Melodic Death / Black Metal from Houston.
Deltona, Florida's Pretorius arrived in 2021 with a death metal sound that places them within Central Florida's rich tradition of brutal, technically-minded extremity. Despite their Bandcamp URL referencing doom, their Metal Archives classification points firmly at death metal — suggesting a band willing to let heaviness take whatever form the moment demands, while keeping the crushing intent front and center.
Doom/sludge metal band from Mar del Plata, Argentina, formed in 2021 by Nacho Aloisi (guitar, vocals), Micaela Luca (bass, vocals), Rodrigo Jordan (guitar), and Lisandro Ordóñez (drums). Their self-titled debut album was recorded between September and November 2020 at Pretorius Homestudio in Mar del Plata and released in January 2021. The album was mixed by Micaela Luca and Ignacio Aloisi and mastered by Hernán D'Ambrosio at No Humanity Studiohome in Necochea, Argentina.
Virginia Beach's Preuve Spectrale have been pursuing an uncommon strain of psychedelic black metal since 2011, threading hallucinogenic texture and disorientation through the genre's traditionally cold and abrasive framework. The French name — meaning "spectral proof" — hints at the band's atmospheric aspirations, melding black metal's raw tremolo density with the mind-expanding drift of psychedelia into something genuinely strange.
Hailing from the small Belarusian city of Maladzyechna, Prevail has been forging melodic death metal since 2014. Their Gothenburg-influenced approach — soaring twin harmonies over aggressive rhythms — brings a touch of Swedish melodicism to the Belarusian underground.
A veteran Catalan death metal act since 1994, Banyoles's Pulmons Negres — 'Black Lungs' in Catalan — has been breathing decay into the northeastern Spanish underground for three decades. Their use of the Catalan language roots them firmly in the region's fiercely independent cultural identity.
Thrash metal band from Neuquén, Argentina with Christian lyrical themes, active since 2017. Their discography includes the studio albums Guerra espiritual, Sin límites, and La sangre del cordero I, as well as the live EP En Vivo en Neuquén, Argentina - 2018, released independently in digital format in July 2018.
Technical death metal and deathcore band from Plock, Poland, formed in 2021, delivering technically demanding extremity from central Poland. They bring storm-force intensity to the Masovian metal underground.
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