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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Thrash metal turned thrash-groove-hardcore band from Albertville, France, active since 2009, evolving from pure thrash into a more versatile crossover sound. Their Savoyard mountain origins add a rugged edge to their aggressive metal.
Progressive doom and heavy metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020, digging deep into the primal origins of heavy music through progressive doom. They bring rooted, elemental heaviness to the Greek metal community.
Savage Death Metal from Fort Worth.
Thrash and heavy metal band from Khabarovsk, Russia, formed in 2024, delivering aggressive metal from the Russian Far East near the Chinese border. They bring fresh thrash energy from across the continent.
Bremen's Primary Source has been crafting progressive metal since 2015, their name suggesting a commitment to original, unmediated musical ideas. Their Hanseatic base connects them to a North German prog tradition that values composition over convention.
Death metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2014, delivering precise, targeted death metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area. They are a consistent presence in the Finnish death metal underground.
Solo project of Diogo W F Pereira that melds industrial heaviness with progressive structure and gothic undertones, drawing explicit influence from Rammstein, Megadeth, and Paradise Lost. The debut EP "Night Falls Heavy" (2022), recorded at Funds House studio, pairs themes of technological anxiety and late-capitalist alienation with dense, melodic riffing and harsh vocals.
Igualada's Pulse of Dawn merges doom metal's crushing weight with gothic metal's dark elegance. Their Catalan textile-city base provides an industrially-tinged backdrop for compositions that balance heaviness with atmospheric beauty.
A band that charted an restless course through the underground, starting from speed and thrash metal before shifting toward stoner rock and eventually hardcore. Their trajectory across multiple releases on Bandcamp reflects a willingness to abandon genre comfort zones, though the band ultimately dissolved before fully consolidating either direction.
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