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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Legendary Welsh heavy metal pioneers from Cardiff, active since 1967, whose innovative blend of hard rock and progressive elements made them one of the most influential yet underrated bands in heavy metal history. Their riff-heavy approach directly inspired acts from Metallica to Iron Maiden.
Sludge metal outfit from Brighton, formed in 2016. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Baone (Padua)-based progressive/post-metal act active since 2011, building dynamic compositions that traverse atmospherics and crushing heaviness through extended, narrative-driven structures. Their patient songwriting rewards the listener with cathartic builds.
Buena Muerte is a death metal band from Florencio Varela in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area of Argentina, featuring guitarist and vocalist Favio Leguizamon alongside bassist Jose Manuel Araujo and drummer Hector Benito Paz. The band released the Dios Es Sádico EP in 2018 and the full-length album Catalepsia in 2024, building a steady presence in Argentina's underground death metal scene over two decades.
Raw black metal project from Belgium, active since 2014. They operate in the lo-fi, unvarnished tradition of raw black metal.
Buffalo is a stoner metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed around 2002 by guitarist and vocalist Claudio Filadoro following his tenure as bassist in legendary Argentine desert rockers Los Natas. The band has released six studio albums including their debut Temporada de Huracanes (2002), Karma (2005), and Parálisis (2018), blending heavy stoner riffs with 1970s hard rock influences across a catalog spanning nearly two decades.
Roman grindcore provocateurs formed in 2007, injecting irreverent humor and pop-culture satire into their blasting assault. Their tongue-in-cheek approach and food-obsessed themes make them one of Italy's most distinctive extreme metal acts.
Progressive death metal outfit from Voronezh, formed in 2015. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
German avant-garde black metal band from Klingenthal in Saxony, formed in 2021. They push black metal into unconventional, experimental territory from the Erzgebirge mountains.
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