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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Folk metal band from Pécs, Hungary, active since 2017. Their rum-themed approach delivers folk-infused metal from the southern Hungarian university city.
Run by Witches is a melodic death metal band from Kamenz in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2024. The band channels melodic death metal from the Lusatian region of eastern Germany.
Hard-hitting Melodic Groove Metal / Metalcore from Dallas.
Runamok is a heavy metal band from Remlingen in Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2022. The band delivers straightforward heavy metal from the rural Elm-Asse region.
Black metal project from Scotland, formed in 2024. Their Norse-mythological name channels Scandinavian-influenced black metal from north of the border.
Black metal/punk band from Łódź, Poland, formed in 2025. Their approach fuses black metal's hostility with punk's stripped-down energy from Poland's third-largest city.
Death/doom metal band from Giethoorn, the Netherlands, active since 2018. Their approach delivers crushing death-doom from the village famous for its canals and lack of roads.
Out of Great Falls, Montana, Runecaller traffic in slow-burning stoner doom, fusing the fuzz-heavy haze of stoner rock with the lumbering dread of doom metal in one of the state's more isolated metal scenes since 2022.
Folk metal band from Armagh, Northern Ireland, formed in 2022. Their rune-casting name accompanies folk metal steeped in Celtic and Norse traditions from Ireland's ecclesiastical capital.
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