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Zlotvor is a death/thrash metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2024. Their chaotic and unpredictable sound features fast, heavy guitar riffs combined with blastbeats, grooves, d-beats, and traditional metal vocals.
Zludij is a grindcore/thrash metal band from Slovenia, formed in 2020. They deliver rapid-fire blasts of grinding thrash from the Slovenian underground.
Zmajkamen is an experimental black metal project from Resen, North Macedonia, formed in 2019. Their album "Hymns to Darkness and Light" (2019) features six tracks blending black metal with doom, post-metal, and experimental elements, exploring philosophical and spiritual themes.
Zmarłym is a black metal band from Końskie, Poland, formed in 2020. Their name, roughly meaning "to the dead" in Polish, channels morbid themes through cold, traditional black metal.
Zmey Gorynich is a folk metal/deathcore band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2013. Named after the three-headed dragon of Slavic mythology, they deliver a self-described "buffoonish Folk Metal Opera" that combines traditional Russian instruments like gusli, balalaika, and domra with heavy metal in an outrageously theatrical style.
Zmierzch is a depressive black metal band from Warsaw, Poland. Their name, meaning "twilight" in Polish, reflects the melancholic, despairing atmosphere that pervades their music.
Zmora is a black metal band from Poznań, Poland, formed in 2013. Their prolific output of eight albums, including "Za mgłami nocy" and "Pomiędzy światami," all feature titles evoking darkness, night, and desolation, delivered through atmospheric Polish black metal.
Zoanthropy is a blackened post-metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2017. They merge the atmospheric intensity of post-metal with the rawness of black metal for a dark, immersive listening experience.
Zoax was a London metalcore act formed in 2013, drawing members from established UK heavy bands including Rise To Remain and AxeWound. The band released their debut EP XIII in early 2014 through Century Media Records and went on to share stages with Cancer Bats, Gallows, and appear at multiple Download Festival editions. Their self-titled debut full-length followed in 2016, consolidating a muscular, riff-driven approach to metalcore with hard rock hooks. The band dissolved in December 2017.
Zobibor is a black/death metal band with punk influences from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2016. They blend extreme metal aggression with punk energy from the legendary Gothenburg scene.
Zodiac is a melodic death metal band from Fürstenfeld, Austria, formed in 2020. They craft hook-laden extreme metal that balances ferocious vocals and blast beats with memorable melodic guitar harmonies.
Zodiac Ciphers is a melodic thrash metal band from Gävle/Sandviken, Sweden, formed in 2013. They deliver sharp, melodic thrash metal with precision and intensity.
Zodiac Killer is a groove metal band from Hankasalmi, Finland, formed in 2017. They deliver punishing, riff-heavy groove metal driven by thick, downtuned guitars and pounding rhythms.
Zoebeast is a death metal and grindcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2003. Their three albums, from the self-titled debut (2018) through "Railway To Hellvan" (2025), deliver aggressive yet humorous death-grind under the motto "Aggressive means positive!"
Zol Jad is a black metal band from Skopje, North Macedonia, formed in 2025. They represent the newest generation of Macedonian black metal, bringing raw intensity from the Balkan underground.
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