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Portaestandarte is a black/death metal project from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2018. The band released the single "The Last Battalion" in 2021 and followed it with the demo For the Man Who Will Come in 2022, issued as a limited 100-copy cassette through Ingo Perzel Promotion.
Alzira's Pron delivers brutal death metal and grindcore from the Valencian Ribera Alta since 2014. Their Júcar river valley setting provides an unlikely home for some of the region's most unrelenting sonic punishment.
Brunswick's Ponthiever brings Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to Lower Saxony since 2022. Their Gothenburg-worship approach — harmonized leads over driving rhythms — finds a welcoming home in the historically significant ducal city.
Portals of Glory is a symphonic power metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring members Walter Osedin, Max Suárez, and Nahuel García. The band released their debut album "Divine Alliance" on October 12, 2021, a six-track record that includes songs "Aurora Novum," "Blood and Steel," and "Doom of Your Kingdom."
Heavy and speed metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2016, igniting classic heavy and speed metal fire from the Russian cultural capital. They bring over eight years of metallic energy.
Portrait are a Swedish heavy metal band formed in 2005 in Kristianstad, Skåne, building their sound on the twin pillars of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and classic occult heavy metal. Signed to Metal Blade Records, the band has released six studio albums, from their self-titled 2008 debut through the 17th-century concept album The Host in 2024, maintaining a consistent focus on dark, riff-driven songwriting and dramatic, operatic vocals throughout.
Kansas City's Portrait of God arrived in 2024 swinging the full arsenal of goregrind, slam, and brutal death metal — grotesque, low-tuned, and utterly uninterested in anything that isn't maximally crushing. The name's irreverent blasphemy sets the tone: this is a project that delights in provocation and delivers the heaviness to back it up.
Melodic death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2021, painting vivid sonic portraits of suffering through melodic yet aggressive death metal. They bring emotional depth to the northern Finnish metal scene.
Austin blackened screamo/hardcore. Vicious, genre-blending intensity that defies easy categorization.
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