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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Klaipeda symphonic metal act formed in 2010, crafting orchestral grandeur from Lithuania's major Baltic port. Their sweeping compositions channel the drama and scale of symphonic metal's most ambitious expressions.
Requiem Eternam is a self-described 'philosophical metal' project from Sion, Switzerland, active since 2010 and evolving from ambient Celtic and medieval roots into heavier territory incorporating metal elements. With six albums to their name including Instrumetal I and Emergent, the project explores existential themes through an eclectic, boundary-pushing approach.
Laredo, Texas — a border city with its own fierce cultural identity — is home to Requiem for Redemption, a band that has been fusing thrash and deathcore with death metal heaviness since 2011. Their South Texas roots give their extreme metal an intensity shaped by a region underrepresented in the national metal conversation. Border-country brutality with crossover appeal.
Melodic death/black metal band from Funchal, Madeira, with roots dating to 1996. Three decades of extreme metal from the Atlantic island represent one of the most geographically isolated metal acts in Europe.
Requiem of Death is a raw black metal project from Sweden, formed in 2021. The project channels bleak, lo-fi black metal with ambient undertones, embracing the raw and unpolished end of the black metal spectrum.
Resection is a brutal death metal band from Bohmstedt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2019. The band delivers extreme brutality from one of the most remote and rural corners of northern Germany.
Thrash metal band from Surrey, England, active since 2013. Their approach delivers classic thrash aggression from the English Home Counties.
Metalcore five-piece from Leoben, Styria, founded in 2016 by vocalist Peter Protas, guitarists Michael Prem and Heiko Ropitsch, bassist Stefan Protas, and drummer Fabian Gesselbauer. The band have performed at regional festivals and released music blending melodic death, groove, and modern metalcore elements on Bandcamp.
Reset Yourself is a melodic death metal band from Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2015. The band channels melodic death metal hooks and aggression from the Westphalian university city.
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