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Realidade Mórbida is a two-person grindcore project from Paraíba, Brazil, formed in October 2019 by Paulo Anarkio (vocals) and João Terrorizer (guitars, bass, drum programming). The duo released the demo Desordem e Retrocesso in 2020 and the EP Metamorfose Degenerada.
Stoner metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2010. Their surreal name accompanies hazy, riff-heavy stoner metal from the Irish capital.
Thrash/groove metal band from Novi Sad, Serbia, formed in 2021. Their approach combines thrash speed with groove heaviness from Serbia's second city.
Black metal project from Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, active since 2013. The project channels black metal from the Frisian capital.
Melodic death metal band from Acquaviva delle Fonti near Bari, Italy, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from Puglia represent exceptional dedication.
Realize are an industrial metal trio from Tucson, Arizona, formed in 2017 by members with backgrounds in powerviolence and grind, channeling the abrasive legacy of Godflesh and Nailbomb into tightly wound machine-metal constructed around themes of isolation, simulated reality, and technological anxiety. Signed to Relapse Records, the band released Machine Violence in 2020 and followed it with Two Human Minutes, establishing themselves as a leading voice in the current wave of industrial metal.
Houston art-punk pioneers. One of the earliest and most creative Texas punk bands.
Realm is a black/death metal band from Mikkeli in eastern Finland, active since 2011. The band fuses black and death metal from the Savo lakeland region.
Fort Worth's Realm Drifter crawled out of the Texas heat in 2022 dealing in stoner-doom that stretches riffs into long, resin-thick passages and anchors them with the weight of the Lone Star sun. It's psychedelic, slow, and heavy in the way that only bands steeped in the Texas desert-rock tradition manage.
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