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Safe House (2017)
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A Grey Sigh In A Flower Husk (2007)
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Paper Tiger (2025)
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Heavy metal band from Sassari, Sardinia, formed in 2019. Changes brings traditional metal energy to the Mediterranean island's growing scene.
Jersey City, New Jersey stoner-doom band Changeörder traffic in heavy, fuzz-saturated riffs and slow grooves rooted in the traditions of Black Sabbath and early American stoner rock. Their sound is thick and repetitive, built for maximum sonic weight.
Black metal project from Warsaw, active since 2014. Chanid channels dark, atmospheric black metal from the Polish capital.
Indianapolis, Indiana band Channel the Animal blend death metal brutality with progressive metal's technical intricacy and thrash metal's aggression into a complex, riff-driven sound. Their compositions shift between crushing heaviness and dynamic, progressive passages.
Thrash and groove metal band from Brussels, Belgium, active since 2013. They combine the speed and aggression of thrash with the rhythmic heaviness of groove metal, representing the heavier side of the Brussels underground.
Black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. They craft dark, channeling black metal from the Greek capital.
Doom and gothic metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2010. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres over crushing doom foundations from the Catalan capital.
Black metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2011. They channel blasphemous fury and dark intensity from the Swabian capital.
Chant of the Goddess is a Brazilian stoner/doom metal band with sludge metal influences, formed in 2017 in the São Paulo state region. The band released a self-titled debut album in 2017, produced by Sebastian Carsin and Renan Angelo, and appeared on the compilation Doomed & Stoned Latinoamerica Vol. I (2018) with the track "Sanctuary of The Scarlet Night."
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