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The Lifted Veil is a black/death metal band from Mikkeli, Finland, formed in 2016. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's ferocity.
The Light is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Lörrach, Germany, formed in 2014. They play classic heavy metal and hard rock from the upper Rhine.
Omaha's The Light That Blinds emerged in 2020 and occupy the exploratory wing of progressive metal, the kind of music more interested in where a riff goes than how hard it hits. Their Bandcamp presence under the handle rf21 hints at an oblique sensibility, and their Nebraska base situates them in a Midwest underground that rarely gets credit for its progressive ambitions.
Formed in 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri by guitarist and vocalist Rick Giordano, The Lion's Daughter built their identity around blackened sludge metal that was abrasive and deliberately bleak. Over five albums and nearly two decades on Season of Mist, the trio evolved significantly, most sharply with Future Cult (2019), a synth-driven departure that shed traditional genre trappings while retaining their corrosive edge. Skin Show followed in 2021. The band announced their farewell in 2025, with Giordano citing a completed creative mission as the reason for dissolution.
Turnersville, New Jersey's The Log have been playing thrash and crossover since 2013, channeling the raw energy of the genre's mid-1980s peak without ironic distance or nostalgia-act posturing. South Jersey's blue-collar geography suits the no-nonsense, riff-first attitude that defines their approach to crossover thrash.
The Lone Madman is an epic doom metal project from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016. They craft grand, epic doom metal compositions.
Few American heavy metal bands have earned as devoted a cult following as San Francisco's The Lord Weird Slough Feg, whose Celtic mythology-laced traditional metal has been a fixture of the underground since the late 1980s. Having recently relaunched under the Bandcamp handle 20thcenturywretch with activity listed from 2024, the band continues to refine a sound built on intricate guitar work, theatrical vocal delivery, and a deep literary sensibility that sets them far apart from ordinary heavy metal.
The Losts from Lille deliver heavy metal from the northern French metropolis near the Belgian border with the disoriented energy their grammatically unconventional name suggests since 2013. Over a decade of output from Nord-Pas-de-Calais, they have carved out a space in the cross-border metal scene.
Progressive/melodic death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2017. The band released the eight-track debut album Occvlt on August 4, 2017, followed by the full-length Reverie on February 20, 2020.
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