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Power and thrash metal band from Herenthout, Belgium, formed in 2014, delivering an energetic fusion of melodic power metal hooks and thrash metal aggression. They represent the heavier side of the Belgian metal scene.
Melodic death metal band from Ziar nad Hronom, Slovakia, formed in 2019, delivering melodic death metal from the central Slovak mining region. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melody to Slovak metal.
Patriarchs in Black is a New Jersey doom and sludge metal band formed in 2021 by guitarist Dan Lorenzo (Hades, Vessel of Light) and drummer Johnny Kelly (Type O Negative, A Pale Horse Named Death). Their debut album Reach for the Scars arrived in 2022, establishing a heavy, riff-centered sound indebted to classic doom and southern sludge, with subsequent releases including My Veneration and Visioning maintaining steady output. The band regularly features rotating guest vocalists and instrumentalists from across the heavy rock and metal worlds.
Patriarchy was a black metal project from Buenos Aires that operated briefly from 2019 until splitting up not long after, existing entirely within the shadows of Argentina's substantial but largely unsung black metal underground. Buenos Aires has produced a diverse range of black metal acts across the decades — from the raw, primitive hordes of the 1990s who absorbed the Scandinavian second wave almost in real time through underground tape trading, to more recent projects exploring atmospheric, ambient, and post-black metal territories. The name Patriarchy, deployed by a black metal band, sits in an interesting space: it could represent a straightforward adoption of dark thematic imagery common to the genre, an ironic or critical gesture toward social power structures, or simply a provocative moniker in the tradition of Argentine black metal bands who favor confrontational names. Black metal in Buenos Aires has historically operated through small dedicated zines, tape labels, and underground shows — a world largely invisible to the mainstream music press but fiercely self-sufficient. Patriarchy's brief existence and subsequent dissolution follows a familiar trajectory for underground black metal projects globally: intense but short-lived, leaving a limited trace in the public record beyond their Encyclopaedia Metallum entry and whatever recordings they produced during their active period. Their registration with an active Bandcamp URL suggests at least some material exists in digital form for those willing to seek it out.
Operating from the rural Emsland district since 2009, Parity Boot fuses industrial metal's mechanical pulse with electronic experimentation. Their Lower Saxon countryside setting provides an unlikely home for their cold, machine-driven sound.
Thrash and death metal band from Schmelz, Germany, formed in 2019, combining the speed of thrash with the brutality of death metal. Their provocative name matches the intensity of their sonic assault.
Patricio Stiglich Project is a progressive metal and rock band from Bogotá, Colombia, active since 2010. The project has released five full-length albums, most recently "5" in 2024, alongside several EPs and singles exploring themes of life and humanity. Notably, they opened for Megadeth at the band's Bogotá show on September 2, 2012.
Thrash and groove metal band from Latina, Italy, formed in 2015, delivering aggressive, patriotic metal from the Lazio region. They combine thrash velocity with groove metal's headbanging rhythms.
Blackened death metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2022, whose name references the early Church Fathers of Christianity. They deliver blasphemous blackened death metal from the Eternal City.
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