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Outer Space (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Atmospheric black metal project from the Brest Region of Belarus, emerging in 2025. Their sound channels depressive and post-metal elements alongside raw black metal, as heard on the single My Last Tomorrow.
Depressive black metal project from Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast, active since 2013. ChernoMor — a play on both 'Black Sea' and a character from Russian folklore — crafts melancholic black metal.
Black metal project from Izhevsk in the Udmurt Republic, formed in 2019. Chernota — Russian for 'blackness' — delivers raw black metal from the Ural region.
Heavy metal band from Vigo, Spain, active since 2012. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Galician Atlantic port city.
Doom and stoner metal band from Finland, formed in 2024. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden doom grooves rooted in the stoner tradition.
Progressive heavy metal act from Como, Lombardy, formed in 2024. Cherry Wine brings a melodic, exploratory approach to Italian heavy metal.
Progressive thrash metal band from Dittelsheim-Hessloch in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, active since 2013. They merge complex progressive arrangements with the driving force of thrash.
Thrash metal band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver aggressive, riff-heavy thrash from the heart of northern Hesse.
Austin noise rock. Ferocious, unhinged, and brutally loud since the early 90s. Reunited in 2014 after 15 years.
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