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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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San Antonio noise rock/psychedelic punk chaos. Completely unhinged and absolutely essential.
Varteig/Sarpsborg-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2020. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
German melodic death metal band from Wuppertal, active since 2009. They bring over a decade of melodic death metal to the Bergisches Land scene.
Komotini-based thrash metal act active since 2020, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Greek filter.
Forged in 2007 from Naples, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Spanish heavy metal band from Granada, formed in 2025. They bring fresh heavy metal to the Andalusian underground.
Cartaxo-based sludge/post-metal outfit active since 2025, building dynamic compositions that oscillate between abrasive sludge riffing and atmospheric expanses. Their music trades in tension and release, alternating quiet passages with crushing walls of distortion.
Samara-based black metal act active since 2013, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Russian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Speed metal band from Menen, Belgium, active since 2013. They ride the wave of high-velocity riffing and breakneck tempos from West Flanders.
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