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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Stugg deliver heavy and groove metal from Hillerod north of Copenhagen, combining classic metal foundations with groove's rhythmic punch. Formed in 2020, they bring stumpy, hard-hitting energy to the North Zealand metal scene.
New York experimental groove metal band formed in 2013, combining the low-end churn of groove metal with unconventional song structures and experimental sonic detours.
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Brutal death metal band from the southern Bulgarian city of Kardzhali, active since 2021. Their punishing extremity channels death metal's most violent impulses from a region near the Greek and Turkish borders.
Death metal band from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, formed in 2024, bringing fresh brutality to the region's nascent extreme metal underground.
Curwensville, Pennsylvania project formed in 2025 that fuses industrial doom and death metal, layering mechanized textures over slow, crushing heaviness.
Subache craft industrial doom metal from Freiburg im Breisgau, fusing the mechanical textures of industrial music with doom's crushing weight. Active since 2017, they bring a distinctive hybrid to the Black Forest region's metal underground.
Power metal band from the tiny Tyrolean village of Sankt Ulrich am Pillersee, formed in 2016. Their approach brings the genre's signature soaring melodies and driving energy to one of Austria's most improbable metal outposts.
New Hampshire slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, embracing the genre's signature down-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and rhythmically punishing breakdowns.
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