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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Zuhatag is a heavy/speed metal band from Fegyvernek, Hungary. Their EPs "Season I. - Vesna" and "Season II. - Arbiter" showcase energetic metal with Eastern European lyrical themes.
Zuldar is a melodic death metal band from the Basque Country of Spain, formed in 2018. They deliver Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal with an intensity rooted in their Basque metal underground origins.
Zulmet is a black metal band from Bartın, Turkey, formed in 2017. They deliver dark, atmospheric black metal from the Black Sea coast of northern Turkey.
Zulo is a heavy metal band from Figueres in Catalonia, Spain, formed in 2014. They play traditional heavy metal drawing from the long-running Spanish-language hard rock and metal tradition.
Zulu is a stoner/doom/gothic metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2019. Their earlier work blends stoner, doom, and gothic metal influences before transitioning toward a more rock-oriented direction.
Zurgr is a one-man raw black metal project from Italy, founded in 2023. The demo tape "Through Dungeons Deep" (2024) features five tracks of atmospheric black metal inspired by fantasy RPGs and The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
Zurkulet is a death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2019. They deliver heavy, unrelenting death metal from the heart of the Hungarian capital's underground metal scene.
Zurvan is a black/heavy metal band from Timișoara, Romania, formed in 2011. Named after the Zoroastrian deity of infinite time, they fuse black metal ferocity with heavy metal grandeur.
Zuskul is a depressive/atmospheric black metal project from Wales, formed in 2025. Their album "The Fall Into Self-Hatred" features dark, introspective compositions with both English and German-language elements, exploring themes of despair and self-destruction.
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