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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Punishing brutal death metal from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2005. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Black metal project from Norrköping, emerging in 2017. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Swedish origins.
Finnish atmospheric sludge metal and post-hardcore band from Kotka, formed in 2012. They blend sludge metal's weight with post-hardcore's emotional dynamics.
Doom/sludge metal act from Leeds, formed in 2023. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Liverpool-based metalcore act active since 2015, merging hardcore punk's confrontational energy with heavy metal's technical ambition. Their compositions trade between aggressive breakdowns and melodic passages with the dynamic range that defines the genre.
Plymouth-based deathcore act active since 2025, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Metalcore band from Liege, Belgium, active since 2012. They deliver the punishing breakdowns and melodic passages that define the metalcore genre.
Southampton's Bury Tomorrow have become pillars of the UK metalcore scene through consistent, quality output anchored by the dual-vocal interplay between Dani Winter-Bates's screams and Jason Cameron's soaring cleans. Albums like 'Earthbound' and 'Cannibal' deliver stadium-ready choruses backed by relentless heaviness, earning them main-stage festival spots across Europe.
Finnish black/death metal band from Tampere, formed in 2022. They deliver burial-themed black/death metal from Finland's industrial heartland.
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