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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Boston's Rozamov, formed in 2015, blend the psychedelic haze of stoner metal with the slow, oppressive roll of doom, building long-form songs that burn low and heavy without sacrificing atmosphere for riff worship. They are a reliable fixture in the northeastern heavy underground.
Progressive black metal project from London, formed in 2026. Their Slavic-rooted name accompanies boundary-pushing progressive black metal from the UK capital.
Rozz is a heavy metal band from Valenciennes in northern France, active since 2011. The band delivers traditional heavy metal from the old coal-mining city near the Belgian border.
Speed metal/punk band from Portugal, active since 2015. Their deliberately misspelled, road-scum-themed name accompanies high-velocity crossover from the Portuguese underground.
Groove metal and hardcore band with RAC influences from Sopron, Hungary, active since 2004. Two decades of aggressive metal from the Austrian border city.
Rraaumm is an atmospheric black metal project from Germany, formed in 2019. The project channels expansive, immersive atmospherics through black metal from the German underground.
RSE is a Bavarian black metal project formed in 2021, operating from the depths of the southern German underground. The project channels raw black metal intensity from the forests and mountains of Bavaria.
Black metal project from Wrocław, Poland, formed in 2022. Their Polish name, meaning 'mercury,' channels the toxic, volatile character of their black metal from the Lower Silesian capital.
Black metal project from Portugal, formed in 2021. Their Hebrew name, meaning 'evil spirit,' channels occult black metal.
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