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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Stoner and thrash metal turned psychedelic stoner metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2013, evolving into increasingly psychedelic territory. Their Hendrix-referencing name signals the trippy, mind-expanding nature of their heavy music.
Speed metal band from Czestochowa, Poland, formed in 2017, chasing down listeners with relentless velocity from the Silesian-Lesser Poland border. They bring classic speed metal energy to the Polish underground.
New Jersey progressive death metal and metalcore hybrid formed in 2023, fusing the technical ambition of modern death metal with the structural hooks of metalcore in a combination that reflects the dense, polyglot heavy music scene of the mid-Atlantic.
La Porte, Indiana melodic power metal band active since 2014, trafficking in soaring vocals, double-bass gallop, and anthemic chord progressions drawn from the European power metal tradition — an unusual outpost for the style in the American Midwest.
Death metal band from Nokia, Finland, formed in 2014, continuing the proud Finnish death metal tradition established by bands from the same region. They deliver old-school death metal from the Pirkanmaa area.
Raw black metal band from Ufa, Russia, formed in 2015, delivering a decade of raw, unpolished black metal from the Bashkortostan capital. They bring primal extremity from the southern Urals.
Purulence was an all-female death metal and grindcore quartet from Botucatu, São Paulo, formed in 1992 by Alessandra (vocals), Simone (guitar), Cassia (vocals and drums), and Ludmilla (bass). The band released the split "Going the Putrid Reality" in 1995 alongside New York Against the Belzebu, and are documented as the first all-female grindcore band in Latin America.
Kingsport, Tennessee death metal act formed in 2024, representing the newer generation of Appalachian-region extreme metal with a straight-ahead, no-frills approach to the genre's foundational brutality.
Brutal death metal and goregrind turned black metal and grindcore band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2008, whose gloriously grotesque name matches their sonic evolution. Nearly two decades of extreme mutation from the Russian capital.
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