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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Manlleu's Pánico al Miedo — 'Panic at Fear' in Spanish — has been dealing death-thrash since 2018 from the Osona valley of central Catalonia. Their paradoxical name captures the genre's love of extremity, turning fear itself into something to be feared.
Hardcore turned heavy metal band from Skelleftea, Sweden, formed in 2017, evolving from hardcore roots into heavier metal territory. They bring metamorphic intensity from the Vasterbotten coast.
Folk metal band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2021, whose Latvian name means 'swamp metal.' They weave Latvian folk traditions into their heavy metal sound, creating a distinctly Baltic folk metal identity.
Metalcore band from Lleida, Spain, formed in 2017, delivering heavy breakdowns and aggressive energy from the western Catalan capital. They bring modern metal intensity to the Spanish metalcore scene.
Bay Area extreme metal mainstay since 2005, blending death metal, crossover thrash, and grindcore into a chaotic, low-fidelity assault that draws on the Northern California underground's long tradition of genre-defying extremity.
Houston thrash metal band formed in 2005, operating in the city's historically fertile extreme metal underground with the straightforward speed and aggression that defines the Texas approach to the genre.
Meriden, Connecticut thrash metal band from 2005, part of the scrappy New England underground metal scene that has quietly produced some of the region's most uncompromising aggressive acts.
Puscifer is Maynard James Keenan's Arizona-rooted art-rock project, developed as a deliberately flexible outlet apart from Tool and A Perfect Circle. Rather than functioning like a conventional rock band, Puscifer works as a rotating creative laboratory centered on Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round, and a changing network of collaborators. V Is for Vagina introduced a sly, electronic, desert-dust version of industrial-tinged rock, while Conditions of My Parole, Money Shot, Existential Reckoning, and later releases refined the balance between groove, atmosphere, satire, and emotional unease. The music often moves at a controlled simmer: bass lines pulse, electronics flicker, guitars appear as texture or threat, and the vocals trade between Keenan's dry menace and Round's melodic gravity. Puscifer belongs in a heavy-adjacent directory because its darkness, industrial influence, and alternative-rock weight sit near metal culture even when the arrangements avoid traditional riff dominance. The project's history is also inseparable from performance art, video, and character work, but the songs endure because beneath the absurd framing sits patient, moody, carefully engineered rock architecture.
Death metal and grindcore band from Tours, France, active since 1993, making them one of the longest-running extreme metal acts in the Loire Valley. Over three decades of grinding extremity mark them as true veterans.
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