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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
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Folk/power metal band formed in Belgium in 2023, combining the adventurous spirit of power metal with folk instrumentation and medieval-inspired themes. Their approach taps into the European tradition of folk-inflected metal with a distinctly Belgian character.
Progressive thrash metal band from Pleven in northern Bulgaria, active since 2018. Their progressive approach adds structural complexity and dynamic range to thrash metal's foundational aggression.
Ontario, California death metal band formed in 2018, bringing Inland Empire grit to the genre with a blunt, punishing approach rooted in the classic death metal tradition.
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Sidewalk Mafia craft gothic and doom metal from Helsinki, combining dark urban themes with crushing heaviness. Formed in 2022, they bring street-level darkness to the Finnish capital's gothic doom scene.
Somma Lombardo's Sidhe blend doom and gothic metal with a name from Irish fairy mythology since their formation. This Lombard act channels Celtic mysticism through a distinctly Italian lens of dark romanticism.
Brutal Technical / Experimental Death Metal from Modesto, California (early); New Braunfels, Texas (later).
St. Louis industrial black metal act formed in 2019, fusing mechanized, electronic textures with black metal's corrosive atmosphere into a cold, confrontational hybrid.
Varese's Sidne deliver gothic metal from the Lombard lakes since 2020. Their sound trades in the atmospheric melancholy and dramatic tension that define gothic metal at its most evocative.
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