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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
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A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Plauen's Poems of the Elder crafts atmospheric black metal steeped in ancient Vogtland mysticism since 2019. Their Saxony base in the Ore Mountains borderlands feeds a sound rich with nature worship and the weight of centuries-old folk memory.
Sludge, heavy, and death metal band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2020, whose name means 'many-headed.' They deliver multi-faceted heaviness combining sludge, heavy, and death metal from the Latvian capital.
From Saint Marys, Ohio, PolyCrisis weave groove metal's mid-tempo pound together with stoner rock's fuzz and swagger, arriving at something heavy enough for the pit but wide-eyed enough for the couch. Formed in 2023, they're a small-town answer to a question nobody was asking — and the answer turns out to be pretty satisfying.
Raleigh's Polydrafter has been crafting progressive metal that straddles the line between composed complexity and rock-band immediacy since 2012, drawing on the technical vocabulary of the genre without disappearing entirely into time signatures. North Carolina's metal scene doesn't always get its due, but Polydrafter represents the kind of patient, skilled work that builds a reputation over years.
Thrash and groove metal band from Uithoorn and Amstelveen, Netherlands, active since 2009, delivering multi-layered thrash and groove metal from the Amsterdam metropolitan area. They bring versatile aggression to the Dutch metal scene.
Progressive and groove metal band from Reykjavik, Iceland, active since 2008, delivering multi-faceted progressive metal from the Icelandic capital. Their name reflects the many-sided nature of their compositions.
Gothic, death, and doom metal band from Lviv, Ukraine, active since 2008, whose Ukrainian name means 'wormwood field.' Over seventeen years of dark, atmospheric metal from western Ukraine.
Genre-bending instrumental progressive metal from Plano.
Mainz-based Polytoxic arrived in 2024 with a groove-heavy metal sound that carries the weight of the Rhine Valley's industrial heritage. Their debut material suggests a preference for mid-tempo crush over speed, letting each riff land with deliberate impact.
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