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Roots of Disease is a death metal band founded in 2013 in Dobrich, Bulgaria, that later relocated to Plovdiv, and remains active as an independent act. The band's trajectory from the Black Sea coast to Bulgaria's second-largest city reflects the broader movement of musicians toward the country's developing metal hubs.
Doom/death metal project from England, formed in 2022. Their arboreal name frames a blend of doom metal's crushing weight with death metal's guttural intensity.
Sludge/stoner metal band from Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland, active since 2012. Their nature-themed name accompanies heavy, riff-driven stoner sludge from the Greater Poland region.
Norwegian band from the Arctic town of Sortland that evolved from death/doom metal into djent, active since 2018. Their stylistic shift reflects a move toward modern progressive heaviness from above the Arctic Circle.
Roots of Unrest is a death metal band from the Rodgau/Dieburg area in southern Hesse, Germany, formed in 2024. The band delivers death metal from the Rhine-Main region's suburban underground.
Brazilian doom and stoner metal solo project, formed in 2023. The debut full-length Lucid Nightmare (September 12, 2023) runs eight tracks, including "Notes From Underground," "Smoking A Blunt In Darkness," and "Death Is My Only Flight." The release is self-described as exploring existential and psychological themes.
Depressive/atmospheric black metal band from Katowice, Poland, formed in 2022. Their evocative name channels bleak, nature-inspired depressive black metal from the Silesian capital.
Based out of McCall, Idaho — a small mountain town with no particular metal history — Rope Straightener formed in 2022 playing sludge metal that sounds like it belongs to the surrounding terrain. The isolation of the setting seems to have worked its way into the music: heavy, unhurried, and unconcerned with an audience.
York, Nebraska's Ropewalker have been weaving together black metal, doom, and gothic metal since 2020, a combination that puts atmospheric desolation front and center. The gothic sensibility lends the project's doom and black metal a certain mournful elegance that's rare in either genre on its own.
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