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Rise of Nothingness is an industrial black/death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2023. The band fuses mechanical industrial elements with black and death metal from the French capital.
Slam/brutal death metal band from Texel, a Wadden Sea island in the Netherlands, formed in 2025. Their tongue-in-cheek name accompanies slamming brutality from one of the most unlikely metal origins imaginable.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Teesside, England, active since 2014. Their mythical name accompanies classic heavy and thrash metal from the industrial northeast.
Death metal/grindcore band from Genoa, Italy, formed in 2020. Named after the giant centipede, their approach delivers venomous extreme metal from the Ligurian port city.
Death/groove metal band from Bergamo, Italy, active since 2014. Their tyrant-themed name accompanies heavy, rhythmically driven extreme metal from the Lombardy foothills.
Rise to Fall is a melodic groove metal band from Bilbao in the Basque Country, Spain, active since 2010. Over a decade of activity has established the band in the Basque metal scene, blending melody with groove metal heaviness.
Rise to the Sky is a one-person atmospheric doom/death metal project formed in Santiago, Chile in 2019 by Sergio G., who also plays in My Dearest Wound and Winds of Tragedy. The project is prolific, having released multiple full-lengths, EPs, and singles since its inception, including the albums Moonlight (2019), Death Will Not Keep Us Apart (2020), Let Me Drown with You (2021), and Every Day, a Funeral (2022).
Groove/thrash metal and hardcore band from the spa town of Busko-Zdrój, Poland, formed in 2026. Their approach blends groove metal with thrash velocity and hardcore energy.
Melodic power metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2014. Their approach delivers melody-driven anthemic power metal from the Italian capital.
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