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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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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.
Pombajira — the trio of Blizzard, Hellson Röcha, and T. Splatter — channel the spirit of an Afro-Brazilian female deity into slow, ritualistic doom metal shaped by Black Sabbath, Venom, Celtic Frost, and Pentagram. Their 2019 self-titled debut on Blizzard/Crionic Records established their raw, candid approach, while the 2025 follow-up Sabbatical Spells, recorded at HCS Studios in Rio de Janeiro, pushed further into occult and rebellious territory.
Black metal band from Torun, Poland, formed in 2019, channeling darkness from the Gothic brick city on the Vistula River. They bring atmospheric black metal to the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region.
Groove metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2019, whose Ukrainian name means 'revenge.' They deliver vengeful groove metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Brodhead, Kentucky's PondDigger plants stoner and doom metal in genuinely rural soil, delivering the kind of slow, smoke-thick riffs that feel earned when they come from somewhere this far off the map. Formed in 2023, they carry the unhurried weight of Appalachian isolation in every distorted chord, a natural extension of the land they come from.
Erfurt's Part of the Anima has been crafting atmospheric black metal since 2016, drawing on the Thuringian capital's medieval architecture and dense cultural history. Their cascading tremolo passages and ambient textures create vast sonic landscapes befitting their Central German surroundings.
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