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Viennese three-piece inspired by the second wave of black metal, pushing the genre's boundaries through atmospheric orchestral passages and innovative songwriting. Their 2025 concept album The Eternal Abyss explores the multifaceted nature of death across 11 tracks of symphonic melodic black metal.
Omaha, Nebraska's Undying Sorrow specialize in funeral doom metal — the genre's most extreme expression of grief and slowness — cultivating an atmosphere of crushing, funereal despair since 2021. For listeners who want their metal to feel like an actual eulogy.
Undying Unicorn is a groove/post-metal project from Moscow, Russia, crafting melancholy instrumental post-metal described as an attempt to convey pain without words. Their 2020 EP Wordless Misery contains four tracks of atmospheric, vocal-free heaviness.
Une Misère formed in Reykjavík, Iceland in April 2016 as a six-piece collective intent on producing some of the heaviest music to emerge from the island nation. The band plays blackened metalcore and metallic hardcore that reflects the bleakness and isolationism of the Icelandic landscape, and won the Wacken Metal Battle in Iceland within their first year. Their debut full-length Sermon was released in 2019 on Nuclear Blast Records.
Unearth formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1998 and developed into one of the most consistent American metalcore acts of the 2000s, combining European melodic death metal guitar work with hardcore-driven breakdowns and rhythms. Their breakthrough The Oncoming Storm (2004) on Metal Blade Records debuted on the Billboard 200 and established the template they would build on across eight studio albums, including Darkness in the Light (2011) and The Wretched; the Ruinous (2023). The band's twin-guitar interplay between Trevor Phipps and Buz McGrath has been a defining element of their sound for over two decades.
Death metal band from Preston, Lancashire, England, active since 2016 and delivering the genre's signature brutality from the industrial north. Their sound channels death metal's core elements through a distinctly northern English lens.
Death metal project from Finland, active since 2021, performing ritual-themed death metal that evokes ancient, unearthly ceremonies. Their sound channels death metal's primal power through an occult lens.
Unearthly Trance formed in Long Island, New York in 2000 as a trio — vocalist and guitarist Ryan Lipynsky, bassist Jay Newman, and drummer Darren Verni — producing sludge and doom metal with a blackened, psychedelic undercurrent. The band released material on Southern Lord, Rise Above, and Relapse Records across a career that included albums such as The Trident (2006) and Stalking the Ghost (2017). They shared stages with Electric Wizard, Sunn O))), and Morbid Angel, situating them at the intersection of doom and extreme metal communities.
Black metal project from Warsaw, Poland, active since 2018. Their name meaning 'unease' and Warsaw base connect them to Poland's vital and ever-growing black metal scene.
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