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Piedra Cuarzo is a doom and stoner metal band from Jujuy, Argentina, formed in April 2019 from two pre-existing projects. The four-piece — Gonzalo Mariscal (bass), Nahuel Burgos (guitar), Antonio Cruz (guitar/vocals), and Marcos Rotten (drums) — released their debut EP "XUXUY" in September 2020, blending instrumental and psychedelic elements with heavy, sludge-inflected riffs.
Death metal band from Poland, formed in 2023, whose Polish name means 'hellish bastard.' They deliver infernal death metal with characteristic Polish extremity.
San Diego's Pierce The Veil, led by vocalist-guitarist Vic Fuentes, elevated post-hardcore into something breathlessly intricate and emotionally intense, with albums like 'Collide with the Sky' and 'Selfish Machines' becoming defining records for a generation of scene kids. Their sound weaves complex guitar work, Latin-influenced rhythms, and Fuentes's distinctive high-register vocals into compositions that shift between heavy breakdowns and sweeping melodic passages. PTV's influence on the 2010s wave of post-hardcore and their devoted fanbase have made them one of the genre's most enduring and commercially successful acts.
Pietro Bernal is a São Paulo-based guitarist and composer working in the tradition of high-precision instrumental heavy metal and shred, releasing his debut album "Infinite Way" in 2022. His music favors technical fluency and melodic invention over brute force, sitting comfortably alongside the progressive instrumental metal that emerged from the guitar-virtuoso tradition.
Black metal band from Bialystok, Poland, formed in 2014, whose name means 'stump' or 'trunk' in Polish. They bring rooted, organic black metal from the Podlasie region near the Belarusian border.
Goregrind band from Ukraine, formed in 2021, delivering crude, abrasive goregrind. They bring deliberately grotesque extremity to the Ukrainian underground.
Alexandria, Virginia's Pig Destroyer are one of American grindcore's most uncompromising forces — Scott Hull's guitar work and J.R. Hayes' literary brutality have defined the genre's outer limits for over two decades.
Orange County's Pigeonwing has been pushing sludge metal into new territory since 2012, balancing crawling heaviness with an underlying melodic sensibility that gives their misery unexpected depth.
Brutal death metal band spanning Hannover, Karlsruhe, Magdeburg, and Steinau, Germany, formed in 2007. Their geographically dispersed lineup delivers unified, crushing brutal death metal across the German underground.
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