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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious (2022)
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Groove metal/metalcore band from Reggio Emilia, Italy, formed in 2025. Their approach combines groove metal's rhythmic punch with metalcore breakdowns.
Thrash metal band from Milan, Italy, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of thrash from Italy's northern metropolis.
Thrash metal band from Caltanissetta in central Sicily, formed in 2020. Their approach delivers thrash aggression from the Sicilian interior.
Grindcore/black metal crossover from Milan, Italy, active since 2010. Their approach merges grindcore's blasting velocity with black metal's atmospheric hostility.
Funeral doom/death metal band from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, active since 2006. Two decades of glacially paced, agonizing extreme metal from the Dynamo festival city.
Sludge/post-metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2010. Their Russian name, meaning 'river,' channels fluid, expansive sludge and post-metal from the Russian capital.
Brazilian black metal project that writes all lyrics in Esperanto, addressing themes of anti-fascism, poverty, and class war. Their album Sango por Sango was released on March 31, 2020, and includes an adaptation of poetry by Eduardo Taddeo in the track "Estamos mortos".
Rekoma is a melodic gothic/heavy metal band from the Raahe/Oulu area in northern Finland, formed in 2017. The band merges gothic atmospherics with melodic heavy metal from the Bothnian coast.
Rekop is a heavy metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2013. The band contributes traditional heavy metal to the Catalan capital's diverse metal scene.
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