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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Oakland's Project Mayhem AD are a freshly minted groove metal outfit, having formed in 2024 in one of the Bay Area's historically fertile underground scenes. Their sound plants itself firmly in the heavy, riff-driven groove tradition, leaning on the kinetic, physical impact that the style delivers at its best. As a new band in a city with a long and serious metal pedigree, they enter the scene with plenty to prove and a readymade audience of hungry ears.
A 2024 German project bridging melodic death metal with metalcore's dynamic range, Path of Ira channels righteous fury through technically proficient compositions. Their modern approach to the melodeath template reflects the ongoing evolution of German extreme metal.
Thunderous Heavy / Groove Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Breda, Netherlands, formed in 2018, delivering medically themed extremity from North Brabant. Their clinical name evokes the tissue necrosis that matches their punishing sound.
Rotenburg's Project Thunderbolt fires on all cylinders with a heavy-groove-thrash hybrid since 2014. Their Lower Saxon base and electrifying name promise high-voltage metal that hits with the force their moniker demands.
Depressive black metal band from Vladivostok, Russia, formed in 2015, channeling the isolation of Russia's Pacific coast through melancholic black metal. They bring a decade of darkness from the Far East.
Project46 grew out of a Slipknot tribute act called Kroach, with guitarists Jean Patton and Vinicius Castellari steering the band toward original metalcore. Their releases include the full-lengths "Doa a Quem Doer" (2011) and "Que Seja Feita a Nossa Vontade" (2014), and the bilingual album "TR3S" (2017), which earned them spots at major rock and metal festivals across South America.
Operating out of Limassol since 2014, Project: Oblivion combines the melodic intricacy of Scandinavian melodeath with thrash metal's rhythmic drive. As one of Cyprus's few extreme metal exports, they represent the island's small but passionate underground scene.
Technical death metal band from Wloclawek, Poland, formed in 2015, crafting mathematically precise technical death metal. They bring cerebral extremity to the Kuyavian metal scene.
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