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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Blackened death metal horde featuring former members of Thornspawn, Hod, and Burial Shroud. Filthy, bestial sound in the vein of Blasphemy and Necrovore.
Dunedin, Florida's Pipe Dreamer stretches doom metal into post-metal's expansive, introspective spaces — slow-building compositions that drift between suffocating heaviness and unexpected light.
Heavy metal and hard rock band from Solna, Sweden, formed in 2020, delivering flowing heavy metal from the Stockholm metropolitan area. They bring riff-driven energy to the Swedish capital region.
A Bay Area institution since 1989, Berkeley's Piranha has survived the genre's cycles long enough to outlast trends entirely, delivering stripped-down thrash with the credibility of three decades in the underground.
Heavy metal band from Prerov, Czech Republic, formed in 2023, joining the ranks of the Czech traditional heavy metal underground. They deliver riff-driven, classic-sounding heavy metal.
Named after one of Bulgaria's most iconic mountain ranges, Pirin channels the cold grandeur of the Balkan wilderness into atmospheric black metal. Active since 2015 out of Stara Zagora, their sound evokes windswept peaks and ancient Thracian landscapes.
Black metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2024, bringing freshly baked black metal fury from Russia's cultural capital. They join the newest generation of Petersburg black metal.
Named for the southern constellation that swallows the river Eridanus, Tupelo, Mississippi's Piscis Austrinus pours raw, unadorned black metal into the deep American South — a strange and fitting vessel.
Funeral doom and death metal band from Smaland, Sweden, formed in 2015, whose crude name belies the crushing seriousness of their funeral doom. They bring glacial heaviness from the Swedish highlands.
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