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Procul His (2024)
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Mortuorum (2023)
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Entrecruces (2024)
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Gothenburg death/black metal act formed in 2011, merging the city's legendary death metal heritage with black metal's atmospheric intensity. Their fusion approach draws from Sweden's deepest wells of extreme metal.
Richmond, Virginia's Cold Touch blends hardcore's confrontational energy with thrash metal's technical rigor, part of a Richmond underground that has long punched far above its population weight in extreme music.
UK black metal project active since 2013. They channel cold void themes through atmospheric black metal.
Heavy metal band from Graz, Austria, formed in 2021 from the ashes of Last in Line. They blend classic heavy metal with sharp riffs and driving grooves, combining clean singing and growled vocals across releases like 'Scorched Earth' and 'Time Capsule.'
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2023. Cold Without Sun blend black metal, deathcore, and symphonic elements into an ambitious sound from the Mediterranean coast.
Bergen County, New Jersey's Cold-Blooded Capitol plays groove-infused thrash that inherits the dense riffing legacy of the New York/New Jersey metro scene while leaning into the stomping rhythms that defined groove metal's peak.
Coldblood is a death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originally formed in 1992, with themes rooted in Satanism and anti-Christianity. After two break-ups and a permanent reformation in 2005, the band released their debut full-length "Under the Blade I Die" in 2007, followed by "Chronology of Satanic Events" (2013) and "Indescribable Physiognomy of the Devil" (2016), the latter released through Selfmadegod Records.
Thrash metal band from London, formed in 2015. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash from the English capital.
Black metal project from Flanders, Belgium, the solo work of Norgaath, who also performs with Enthroned, Nightbringer, and Grimfaug. Albums 'Lingering Voidwards' and 'The Unwritten Pages of Death' emphasize atmosphere and variation within a black metal framework.
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