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Halo (2017)
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Doom metal band from Venice, Italy, active since 2012. Their sepulchral name accompanies crushing doom from the sinking city.
Levice death/doom metal act formed in 2020, merging death metal's guttural extremity with doom's crushing weight from southern Slovakia. Their fusion channels the heaviest traditions of both genres.
Melodic progressive metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, active since 2018. Their approach delivers melody-driven progressive compositions from the Ural capital.
Los Angeles grunge revivalists Return to Dust emerged in 2022 with a sound drenched in the shadow of Alice in Chains, pairing massive, downtrodden riffs with haunting vocal harmonies that channel early-90s Seattle at its darkest. Their 2023 EP 'Black Road' and 2024 debut album went viral on TikTok, introducing a teen guitar phenom whose playing belies his age. The band's ability to capture the spirit of grunge without sounding like mere imitators has earned them tours with Sevendust and a rapidly growing national profile.
Return to End is a melodic death metal band from Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2012. The band delivers melodic death metal from the forested Siegerland region where Westphalia meets Hesse.
Return to Innocence is a doom/death metal band from Mladá Boleslav in central Bohemia, Czech Republic, active since 2001 and one of the longer-running acts in the Czech doom scene. The band channels the classic melancholy of European doom/death through over two decades of activity.
Return to Void is a heavy/progressive metal band from Kotka in southeastern Finland, formed in 2017. The band blends progressive complexity with heavy metal from the major port city on the Gulf of Finland.
Out of Philadelphia, Returner emerged in 2024 blending the surgical riff construction of progressive death metal with the adrenaline-soaked tempos of thrash. Their approach is relentless but not brainless — technical passages weave through aggressive breakdowns, giving the music a cerebral tension that sets them apart from more straightforward death-thrash acts. Still freshly formed, they represent the Philly underground's hunger for complexity without sacrificing ferocity.
Reuze is a death metal, crust, and punk band from Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2017. The band merges death metal heaviness with crust punk's raw energy from the major city on the Saale river in eastern Germany.
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