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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Heavy metal band from Florence, Italy, active since 2015. Their sound channels classic heavy metal power from the birthplace of the Renaissance, reflecting Italy's growing traditional metal scene.
Sludge, drone, and doom metal quartet from Oxford, England, active since 2010 with releases including Anhedonia, Narwhal, and a split with Bismuth. Their crushingly slow sound has made them a cornerstone of the Oxford heavy music scene.
Death metal band from Silkeborg, Denmark, active since 2022 and carrying the weight of their namesake through crushing, grave-heavy compositions. Their sound embodies the relentless brutality and morbid atmosphere that defines Scandinavian death metal.
Veteran extreme metal band from Naples, Italy, active since 1996 and evolving from early brutal death metal toward a blend of death metal, grindcore, and hardcore. Nearly three decades of activity make them one of the longest-running extreme acts in the Neapolitan underground.
Thrash metal band originating in Budapest, Hungary, active since 2019, delivering high-speed aggression from the Hungarian capital. Their sound channels classic thrash metal's riff-driven fury and relentless energy.
Progressive metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2016, featuring Marcelo Saracino on vocals, Renato Estevam and Gustavo Maia on guitars, André Fernandes on bass, and Mário Maia on drums. Their debut full-length The Sound of Hope was released on December 4, 2021, recorded from February to July 2021 at Acustica Studios in São Paulo and produced by Tito Falaschi.
Metalcore and death metal band from Cheltenham, England, active since 2019. Their sound fuses metalcore's structured aggression with death metal's guttural intensity from the Cotswolds.
Death metal band from the port city of Le Havre in Normandy, France, active since 2018. Their sound channels the raw energy and heaviness of death metal from France's northwestern coast.
Melodic black and death metal project from the Finnish port city of Kotka, emerging in 2025 with a sound that merges melodic sensibilities with extreme metal aggression. Their approach balances the atmospheric qualities of melodic black metal with death metal's guttural intensity.
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