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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Pyramidum is a black/death metal band from Quito, Ecuador, formed in 2022 and driven by themes of occultism, vitalism, and misanthropy. The band released their debut promo EP, El Halo del Sol, in 2023, which included three original tracks alongside a cover of Slayer's "Sex, Murder, Art."
An El Paso black metal act formed in 2018, Pyre operates at the harsh, stripped-down end of the genre, conjuring cold and unrelenting tremolo-driven savagery from the Chihuahuan desert borderlands.
Bayonne, New Jersey's Pyre Fyre marries sludge metal's tar-thick heaviness to stoner metal's hazy, fuzz-soaked grooves, forming a swamp of heavy riffs and slow-burning momentum that leans hard into the oppressive and the hypnotic since their 2021 formation.
Psychedelic doom metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2015, setting the world ablaze with hazy, heavy psychedelic doom. They bring cosmic visions and crushing weight to the Glasgow metal scene.
Black metal and hardcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2016, merging the darkness of black metal with hardcore's confrontational energy. They create a potent crossover from the French capital.
Houston sludge/post-metal blending doom with 90s slowcore and noise rock.
El Paso's Pyretic tear through a caustic blend of death metal and grindcore, combining ferocious blasting tempos with riff-first brutality that reflects the raw, uncompromising spirit of the Southwest underground since their 2017 formation.
Minneapolis's Pyreworks carve a path through melodic death and thrash metal, bringing Scandinavian melodic precision to a Midwestern thrash backbone, with tightly executed riffs and a forward-driving intensity that defines their sound since 2019.
Long Island's Pyrexia are veterans of the brutal death metal underground dating back to 1993, known for their suffocating low-end density and punishing groove that helped define the New York brutal death sound, with their catalog spanning early extremity to mid-period death-groove experiments.
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