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Melodic heavy metal and hard rock band from Grenoble in the French Alps, active since 2015. Their sound draws from classic heavy metal and hard rock traditions, infused with the energy of the Alpine city's rock scene.
Atmospheric black metal and ambient project from Bavaria, Germany, blending expansive black metal with meditative ambient passages since 2016. Their sound creates immersive sonic landscapes that bridge the intensity of black metal with the contemplative depths of ambient music.
Urgraven is an experimental black metal project from Tyumen, Russia, one of the longest-running acts in the Siberian underground with origins dating back to 1999. The project pushes black metal into avant-garde territory from deep within Western Siberia.
Heavy metal and hard rock band from Norwich, England, active since 2023. Their sound draws from the classic traditions of British heavy metal and hard rock, named after the classic Commodore 64 video game.
Formed in San Luis Obispo, California in 2021, Urine Garden combine brutal death metal and goregrind in the tradition of the most deliberately repulsive corner of extreme music. Crude, fast, and precisely as disgusting as intended.
Richmond, Virginia's Urisk are among the more recent additions to their city's fertile doom and stoner metal scene, formed in 2024. Drawing on the Southern-inflected stoner doom tradition, they bring Virginia's blue-collar heaviness to a genre well-suited to it.
Hard-hitting Avant-garde Metal from Fort Worth.
Helsinki-based heavy metal band active since 2016, whose Finnish name means 'energy,' delivering high-powered traditional metal from the Finnish capital. Their sound carries the force and vitality that their name promises.
Urkaos is a Swedish black metal and ambient project from Norrland, active since 2020. The project channels the vast, dark expanses of northern Sweden into atmospheric black metal.
Heavy metal band from the Biscay province of the Basque Country, Spain, active since 2018. Their sound carries the weight and power of traditional heavy metal, rooted in the culturally distinct Basque metal community.
Melodic death metal band from Svendborg on the Danish island of Funen, active since 2020. Their sound channels the Gothenburg-influenced melodic death metal tradition through a Danish lens, balancing melodic guitar harmonies with death metal's guttural intensity.
Thrash and black metal band from Sciacca in the Agrigento province of Sicily, Italy, whose name means 'black scream,' active since 2012. Their Sicilian origins bring Mediterranean fire to their extreme metal hybrid.
Raw black metal project from Lower Franconia, Germany, embracing lo-fi production and primal aggression since 2012. Their stripped-down approach to the genre prioritizes atmosphere and raw energy over polished production.
Black and doom metal project from Milan, Italy, active since 2022. Their sound merges the atmospheric coldness of black metal with doom metal's crushing weight from Italy's industrial capital.
Black and death metal band from Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany, founded in 2009 and reflecting on psychology confronted with absolutism, theism, and extreme solitude. Their 2014 album Decay of a Kingdom, a re-recording of their 2010 demo, delivers fast, heavy, and dark sounds without bowing to any single category.
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