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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Towering Doom Metal from Houston.
Death and thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016, delivering explosive death-thrash from the Finnish capital. They combine the best elements of both genres into a volatile mix.
Bilbao's Puttorso has been grinding since 2014, delivering short bursts of grindcore fury from the Basque Country's largest city. Their punishing brevity and industrial Nervión-valley setting produce a sound as compact and explosive as the genre demands.
Progressive metal band from Deventer, Netherlands, formed in 2019, crafting visually inspired progressive metal compositions. They bring contemplative, ambitious musicianship to the Overijssel metal scene.
Meppen's Project Fear fuses thrash metal with industrial textures since 2019, creating a cold, mechanistic aggression from the Emsland district. Their Lower Saxon border-region setting — close to the Netherlands — adds cross-cultural influence to their hybrid sound.
From the southern Bulgarian city of Haskovo, Project Grey has been crafting cold black metal since 2015. Their releases explore themes of aberration and existential decay through raw tremolo passages and hypnotic repetition rooted in the Eastern European underground tradition.
Black metal band from Amadora, Portugal, formed in 2018, delivering black metal darkness from the Lisbon metropolitan area. They bring atmospheric extremity to the Portuguese underground.
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.
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