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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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Slam and brutal death metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2015, delivering feverishly heavy slam death metal. Their name evokes the internal collapse that matches their crushing sound.
A raw black metal project out of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, Pyrgosia emerged in 2023 with a grim and isolated character fitting the rural New England wilderness, channeling traditional black metal harshness with little concession to modernity.
Heavy metal and hard rock band from Bijacovce, Slovakia, formed in 2015, named after the iron sulfide mineral known as fool's gold. Over a decade of gleaming metal from the Spiš region.
Pittsburgh's Pyrithe work in the corrosive overlap of experimental sludge, post-metal, and noise rock, building structures that are architecturally dense and abrasive, reflecting the industrial weight of their city while pushing well past genre comfort zones since 2018.
Thrash metal band from Bucharest, Romania, formed in 2021, detonating explosive thrash metal from the Romanian capital. They bring high-energy thrash to Bucharest's growing metal community.
Progressive metal band from Leksand, Sweden, formed in 2022, delivering incendiary progressive metal from the Dalarna region. They bring fiery ambition to the Swedish progressive metal scene.
Brooklyn's Pyrolatrous channel the blackened melodic death metal tradition into a modern, technically precise form, threading scorched atmosphere and lead-driven melody through aggressive riffwork that draws on both Scandinavian melodeath and raw black metal since 2016.
Lexington, Kentucky's Pyromancer deal in the murky crossfire of black and death metal, conjuring sulfurous, cavernous extremity from the heart of the South with a sound that is as filthy in production as it is unrelenting in attack since 2015.
České Budějovice's Pyromann fuses groove metal's rhythmic punch with metalcore's dynamic shifts, active since 2021. Their South Bohemian base provides a platform in one of the Czech Republic's more active regional metal scenes.
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