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The Bendal Interlude from Liverpool deliver southern and stoner metal with the Scouse swagger of England's music capital since 2007. Nearly two decades of bourbon-soaked compositions from the banks of the Mersey has transplanted American southern metal to the northwest of England.
Death metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria whose name lifts from Frank Herbert's Dune and signals a fondness for literary and conceptual frameworks within extreme metal. Their album Human Inadequacy (2015) is among their documented releases, available through their Bandcamp page alongside the track 'Behelit,' a title referencing Kentaro Miura's manga Berserk. The band operates in Sofia's underground death metal scene, combining blunt heaviness with an interest in mythology and speculative fiction.
The Berzerker formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1995 as a project led by multi-instrumentalist Luke Kenny, originally a drummer sidelined by injury who pivoted to programming and electronics. Signed to Earache Records, the band released a series of albums from 2000 to 2008 — including The Berzerker (2000) and Dissimulate (2002) — that fused industrial death metal with gabber and speedcore at genuinely punishing tempos. After disbanding around 2010, the project showed signs of activity again by 2019, and remains a cult reference point for extreme electronic-metal fusion.
The Betrayed Kingdom is a death/doom metal band from Győr, Hungary, formed in 2022. They craft dark, oppressive metal that blends the weight of doom with death metal's ferocity.
The Big Gloom from Civitanova on the Adriatic coast deliver blackened sludge and post-metal since 2024. Their name captures the overwhelming darkness that pervades their crushing, atmospheric compositions.
The Bill are a Polish punk rock band from Pionki, with roots in the mid-1980s and a breakthrough tied to the early 1990s Polish punk scene. Their name plays on the sound of a Polish insult, matching the band's sarcastic, direct, and confrontational sense of humor. After local rehearsals and early lineup changes, The Bill became widely known through Jarocin-era exposure and the success of The Biut, an album whose title itself jokes with the idea of a debut. Poczatek Konca and Sex'n'Roll followed with fast, melodic punk songs that became staples for Polish punk audiences, combining rough humor, anti-establishment feeling, and accessible choruses. The band later paused and returned in the 2000s, continuing to record and perform for listeners who had kept the early songs alive. Albums such as Niech tancza aniolowie, 8siem, and The Kada show a group that remained connected to its classic punk base while extending its catalog across decades.
Ann Arbor, Michigan's The Biscuit Merchant bring a playfully irreverent name to the serious business of progressive death metal — music that combines technical complexity, dynamic composition, and genuine death metal aggression into something more adventurous than most of their contemporaries manage. Formed in 2019, they represent Ann Arbor's tradition of musicians who bring intellectual rigor to the heaviest possible music.
The Bitch Boyz is a thrash metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive thrash with an irreverent streak.
Assembled in Los Angeles in 2019 by vocalist Jordan Tyler and drummer Mark Hylander, The Bites are a Hollywood hard rock outfit devoted to the sleaze and swagger of 1980s glam and arena rock. Their debut album Squeeze channels Mötley Crüe-style hooks and Van Halen-influenced guitar work through a contemporary production sensibility, landing them tours supporting Sebastian Bach and The Dead Daisies. The band established themselves quickly on the LA club circuit before expanding to international audiences.
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