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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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Melodic death metal outfit from Kyiv, formed in 2022. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
German metalcore and hardcore band from Potsdam, formed in 2015. They deliver aggressive metalcore from the Brandenburg capital.
German melodic death metal band from Dresden, formed in 2015. They craft edenic melodic death metal from the Saxon capital's thriving metal scene.
Spanish heavy/thrash metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2018. They deliver hellfire heavy and thrash metal from the Basque industrial heartland.
Livorno-based thrash/stoner metal act active since 2013, fusing thrash metal's riff-driven aggression with stoner metal's fuzz-drenched groove. Their unconventional hybrid delivers both headbanging intensity and heavy, laid-back swagger.
German black/death metal band from Cham in the Upper Palatinate, formed in 2020. They forge shadow-burnt black/death metal from the Bavarian Forest.
Towering Stoner / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Estonian melodic death metal and metalcore band from Tallinn, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of experience, they are a cornerstone of Estonia's melodic extreme metal scene.
Finnish death/post-metal band from Tampere, formed in 2025. They merge death metal intensity with post-metal's atmospheric breadth.
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