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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Nordenham's Pryer delivers melodic heavy metal from Germany's North Sea coast, where the Weser River meets the ocean. Their maritime Lower Saxon setting infuses their anthemic sound with the wide-open energy of the Butjadingen peninsula.
Buchloe's Psycho Mania has been thrashing with Bavarian intensity since 2016, channeling the genre's '80s heyday through an Allgäu lens. Their Swabian market-town origins produce a sound fueled by blue-collar energy and punk-adjacent attitude.
Thrash metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2018, delivering psychotic thrash metal fury from the Norwegian west coast. They add to Bergen's rich metal heritage with unhinged aggression.
A 2024 black metal project from the Harz mountain town of Ilsenburg, Psykra draws from the dense forests and ancient peaks of Germany's most legendarily dark mountain range. Their setting — steeped in Walpurgis Night mythology — provides perfect raw material for atmospheric extremity.
Psykup are a French experimental and avant-garde metal band from Toulouse, formed in 1995, whose music draws on the dissonant extremity of Strapping Young Lad and the rhythmic eccentricity of Primus while developing a uniquely cinematic compositional approach. Signed to Season of Mist, the band released the ambitious We Love You All in 2008, a six-piece album showcasing their method of assembling compositions from discrete storyboard-like segments into sprawling, unpredictable structures.
Gothic and industrial rock turned gothic doom and black metal band from Slupsk, Poland, formed in 2013, evolving from electronic-tinged gothic rock into heavier, more extreme territory. Their mushroom-derived name hints at psychedelic transformation.
Eugene, Oregon's Psyrup slow-burn through psychedelic doom territory, weaving lysergic haze and crushing weight into a sound that pulls as much from the cosmic as the catastrophic. Formed in 2012, they sit at the murkier end of the doom spectrum where riffs dissolve into feedback and time loses its grip.
Melodic doom and death metal band from Kremenchuk, Ukraine, formed in 2020, delivering melodic doom-death from the central Ukrainian city on the Dnieper River. They bring crushing melody.
Out of Cranston, Rhode Island, Ptarmigan have been grinding and blasting since 2009 with a hybrid of brutal death metal's technical gore and grindcore's no-frills velocity. Their approach favors relentless tempo shifts and suffocating low-end density over melodic concession.
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