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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Stoner, sludge, drone, and doom metal turned electronic ambient project from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2015, evolving from crushing doom into atmospheric electronic territory. Their radical stylistic shift reflects restless creative exploration.
Thrash metal band from Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2022, delivering aggressive thrash metal with irreverent attitude. They bring fast-paced riffing and headbanging energy to the Eastern German metal scene.
Depressive black metal project from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2023. Their debut recording Sleepless... Breathless... Dead is a single sprawling 17-minute track originally recorded in 2020, channeling atmospheric darkness and raw melancholy.
Brutal death metal band from Izmir, Turkey, formed in 2020, whose Turkish name means 'nightclub nights.' They deliver crushing brutal death metal from the Aegean coast.
Cleveland's Pawn plays deathcore with the industrial grit their rust-belt city demands — crushing breakdowns and death metal riffage delivered with unrelenting hostility.
A veteran of the Lower Saxon thrash scene since 2004, Philistine has been delivering riff-driven punishment from the rural Diepholz district for two decades. Their Borstel origins make them one of the most enduring underground thrash acts in northern Germany.
Payasos Come Niñas is a metalcore band from Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, formed in 1999. The band has released two full-length albums: the self-titled Payasos come niñas (2017) and El circo de la agonía (2018). They remain active and independent.
Formed in Londrina around 2019–2020, Payout play speed metal with a raw punk-metal crossover energy drawing heavily from Motörhead, Venom, and Tank. Their 2020 debut demo "First Demonstration" introduced the trio's dystopian lyrical bent and a stripped-back, loud-and-fast approach that keeps the spirit of the original speed metal wave intact.
Epic and melodic black metal band from Lulec, Czech Republic, formed in 2021, releasing their debut album Poupe through Slovak Metal Army and Immortal Souls Productions. Their eight-track record features compositions ranging from atmospheric passages to fierce black metal in the Czech language.
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