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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Savage Avant-garde Death Metal from Dallas, Texas / Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
Melodic death metal project from Spain, active since 2019, delivering the genre's characteristic blend of aggressive riffing and melodic guitar harmonies. Their stylized name reflects an artistic sensibility that extends beyond conventional melodic death metal presentation.
Umzac are a symphonic gothic/folk metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2010, whose name derives from the Chibcha language of the Muisca people and translates roughly to "darkness." Rooted in Muisca legends and mythology, their music incorporates traditional Colombian rhythms including Bambuco and Pasillo, and they released their debut EP Usqua Quyca | Hilando Historias in October 2017.
Estonian heavy metal and hard rock veterans from Tallinn, active since 1995 and among the longest-running metal acts in the Baltic states. Their enduring commitment to classic heavy metal and hard rock has made them a cornerstone of the Estonian metal scene.
Experimental black metal project from Poitiers, France, active since 2021 and deconstructing black metal conventions through an avant-garde lens. Their name itself signals a rejection of binary categorization in favor of experimental freedom.
Unadorned is a progressive doom/death metal project from Ankara, Turkey, founded in 2025 and blending blackened melodic death metal with progressive structures under the banner of 'mystic brutality.' The project features Zachary Alder on vocals, guitar, and bass with Alister Reed on drums.
Unaffected is a heavy metal band from Kumla, Sweden, active since 2022 and delivering straightforward heavy metal from the Swedish heartland. The project draws on Sweden's deep well of traditional metal.
Unangel is a death/thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, exploring the fast and melodic road of thrashy death metal with a broad sonic palette ranging from brutal to technical. Their EPs Amongst Cowards and Drunk on Hate showcase versatility, including tracks sung in Swedish like Tre Dagar I Morker.
Unanimated formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1988 and were early contributors to the melodic death and black metal hybrid that emerged from the Swedish underground in the early 1990s. Their debut In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead (1993) stands among the earliest examples of melodic death metal on record, followed by Ancient God of Evil (1995) on No Fashion Records. The band dissolved in 1996 and reformed years later, releasing In the Light of Darkness (2009) and continuing to record.
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