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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Renuen is a melodic death metal band from Baranovichi, Belarus, active since 2010 with five releases to their name including Follow Our Horror and A Letter From Hell. Their catalog maintains a cohesive dark thematic vision across melodic death metal compositions rooted in the Belarusian underground scene.
Death/black metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2019. Their approach merges death and black metal from the Russian capital.
Odesa depressive black metal project formed in 2021, channeling themes of despair and anguish through bleak sonic landscapes from the Black Sea port city. Their desolate approach mines the most emotionally raw corners of the genre.
Reo is a heavy/thrash metal band from Santurtzi in the Basque province of Bizkaia, Spain, active since 2009. The band delivers aggressive heavy-thrash from the industrial Basque port town on the Nervión estuary.
Deltona, Florida's REO RapeVan merge sludge and stoner metal into something swamp-thick and deliberately abrasive, fully committed to the underground's most transgressive naming traditions. Formed in 2020, they lean into the lo-fi, mean-spirited corner of the sludge spectrum where Eyehategod's shadow falls longest. Florida's heat and humidity seem baked into every slow-motion riff.
Named after the iconic Indonesian folk art form, Los Angeles' Reog bring a multicultural undercurrent to classic heavy metal, forming in 2017 within one of the world's most diverse cities. Their approach is rooted in traditional metal architecture — muscular riffing, melodic sensibility — while nodding to cultural sources outside the genre's typical European and American frame. A distinctive identity in the LA metal underground.
Chicago's Repentance launched in 2021 blending melodic groove metal with metalcore, sitting comfortably in the tradition of hard-hitting Midwestern bands that prioritize groove and aggression over pure technicality. The city's blue-collar metal legacy — think Disturbed, Soil — echoes through their emphasis on rhythmic punch and vocal hooks. A young band with a clear sense of purpose.
Repentless Equestrian is a groove/thrash metal band from Deggendorf in Lower Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2022. The band combines groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash velocity from the Danube valley of eastern Bavaria.
Doom/death metal project from the UK, active since 2013. Their approach combines doom metal's crushing weight with death metal's ferocity.
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