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One-man melodic death and black metal project from Brest, Belarus, created by Robert (Enotovich) in 2020 as a continuation of the earlier Aztaroth project. All guitar parts are recorded by a single person, resulting in releases like Insomnia and Winter Is Coming.
Not to be confused with the legendary Bay Area thrashers, Switzerland's Poltergeist emerged in 2019 from Liestal with a modernized take on thrash. Their sound balances old-school riffing with contemporary production values, reflecting the Swiss tendency toward precision.
Groove and southern metal band from Lviv, Ukraine, formed in 2018, named after the underground river beneath Lviv. They bring groove-heavy southern metal swagger to the western Ukrainian scene.
Folk metal band from Trencin, Slovakia, formed in 2014, named after the Slavic noonday demon of folk mythology. Over a decade they have channeled ancient Slovak folklore through metal.
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.
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