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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, named after the legendary father of King Arthur, active since 2015. Their Arthurian theme and classic metal sound honor the New Wave of British Heavy Metal tradition.
Sludge and stoner metal band from the small Croatian town of Nasice, active since 2009. Their heavy, fuzz-laden sound channels the weight of sludge metal with stoner rock's groove from the Slavonian countryside.
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Black metal project from Athens, Greece, named after a mythological horned serpent, active since 2019. Their mythological theme and Athenian base connect them to the rich tradition of Hellenic extreme metal.
Utmarken is a folk metal band from Vasterbotten in northern Sweden, performing tracks like Forfallstid and Broder i strid that draw on their remote Norrland heritage. The project channels the folk traditions of Sweden's sparsely populated north into metal.
Sludge and doom metal band from Bristol, England, active since 2015. Their sound channels the crushing heaviness of sludge-doom, informed by Bristol's reputation as a hub for heavy, bass-driven music.
Funeral doom and death metal project from Rouen in Normandy, France, active since 2017 and exploring the intersection of extreme despair and sonic heaviness. Their name captures the paradox of idealism crushed by reality, channeled through glacially slow doom compositions.
Cincinnati's Utopiate have been plying the sludge metal trade since 2014, bringing a Midwestern density and a heavy, dragging groove to a genre that rewards patience and volume. The name's wordplay — utopia and opiate — telegraphs a bitter, heavy-lidded worldview.
Goregrind project from Rosenheim in Bavaria, Germany, delivering the genre's trademark blend of extreme speed, guttural vocals, and provocative aesthetics since 2020. Their sound embraces the grotesque intensity that defines goregrind's confrontational approach.
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