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Sierranegra is a metalcore and groove metal band formed in Buenos Aires in May 2019, featuring members Leandro Andrizzi, Sebastian Mella, Nicolas Petkovich, Javier Veron, and Juan Villarreal. Signed to Carnivale Records, the band released a self-titled album in 2020 followed by the six-track EP "La Alquimia del Rencor" in February 2024.
Olympia, Washington stoner/doom duo formed in 2018, building slow, haze-soaked riffs into hypnotic, heavy structures — fitting for a city steeped in DIY culture and Pacific Northwest atmosphere.
Siete Lagunas is a black metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2017 and signed to La Caverna Records. The band released two demos in their first two years of activity — simply titled I (2017) and II (2018) — drawing on themes of nature and Colombian mythology. Their demo tracks incorporate Spanish-language titles referencing natural landscapes and figures from regional folklore.
Siete Lagunas is a black metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2017 and signed to La Caverna Records. The band released two demos in their first two years of activity — simply titled I (2017) and II (2018) — drawing on themes of nature and Colombian mythology. Their demo tracks incorporate Spanish-language titles referencing natural landscapes and figures from regional folklore.
New Orleans doom and drone metal project formed in 2020, evolving from pure ambient drone into heavy, atmosphere-laden doom that carries the weight and humidity of the city itself.
Houston thrash/doom/death metal crossover act formed in 2018, drawing from three distinct traditions of extremity to craft a dense, shifting sound rooted in the Texas underground.
Viking/folk metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2011, with a lineup that includes André Frekiugr on vocals and bagpipes, Victor Maldonado on guitar, Felipe Malavazzi on bass, and Dubh on drums. The band issued the six-track demo Galdra Smidr in December 2011, with lyrics and themes drawn from Norse paganism and mythology.
Sigh formed in Tokyo in 1989, initially drawing from the Nordic black metal tradition before evolving into one of extreme metal's most unpredictable avant-garde acts. Their debut full-length Scorn Defeat (1993) was released on Euronymous's Deathlike Silence Productions shortly before the label's collapse, and the album's integration of symphonic and black metal elements was years ahead of its time. Subsequent records — particularly Imaginary Sonicscape (2001) — pushed further into surrealism, incorporating jazz, psychedelia, and classical music without losing their extreme metal core. Vocalist and keyboardist Mirai Kawashima has remained the band's constant creative force across more than three decades of continuous activity.
San Diego blackened sludge metal band formed in 2023, fusing black metal's corrosive malice with sludge's thick, punishing low-end into a suffocating and visceral sound.
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