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Proof (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Southampton-based melodic black metal project active since 2013, tempering raw aggression with sweeping arrangements and harmonized guitar leads. Their approach balances the genre's inherent hostility with moments of dark grandeur.
Spanish black metal band from Ciudad Real, formed in 2023. They deliver demonic black metal from the La Mancha plains.
Thrash metal outfit from Groningen, formed in 2020. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Punishing brutal death metal from Perm, formed in 2014. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German heavy/doom metal band from Marburg, formed in 2024. They merge traditional heavy metal with doom metal's crushing weight.
Death metal outfit from Bergen, formed in 2023. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Finnish black metal band from Tampere, formed in 2020. Named after an abyss of Greek mythology, they deliver deep, atmospheric black metal.
Bywar is a Brazilian thrash metal band from São Caetano do Sul in the greater São Paulo area, active across a span of approximately 17 years before disbanding in 2013. The band recorded four full-length albums, including "Twelve Devil's Graveyards" (2007) and "Abduction" (2011, released through Mutilation Records), establishing themselves as a fixture of the Brazilian old-school thrash scene. Their lyrical themes ranged from war and occultism to ufology and paranormal phenomena.
Instrumental progressive metal trio from Lille, France, formed in 2021, featuring guitar, bass, and drums augmented by piano, cello, and violin. Their debut album Qualia weaves atmospheric and ambient passages through heavy progressive compositions, recorded and mastered at Antistatic Studio.
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