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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Heavy and stoner metal band from Varazdin, Croatia, named with a Tolkien reference, active since 2019. Their sound combines traditional heavy metal weight with stoner metal's fuzzy, riff-driven psychedelia.
Raw black metal project from Madrid named after Tolkien's orc fortress, delivering lo-fi, abrasive extremity since 2024. Their stripped-down sound embraces the raw aesthetic of underground black metal with fantasy-inspired thematic content.
Black metal project from Milan, Italy, named after Tolkien's dark fortress, active since 2024. Their sound channels black metal's atmospheric darkness through the lens of fantasy-inspired themes.
German black metal project active since 2019, channeling the genre's core elements of tremolo-picked riffs, blast beats, and atmospheric darkness. Their work maintains the underground ethos that defines European black metal's continuing tradition.
Urutau is a Brazilian death metal project recorded across São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul, whose debut release "Nihilistic Paraphilia" appeared in August 2022 on the Cultivation of War label. The demo offers three tracks of abyssal, tradition-rooted black/death metal, showcasing a deliberately obscure and underground approach to the genre.
Urvasen is a Swedish black metal project whose 2023 debut Faror delivers five tracks of atmospheric Scandinavian black metal on cassette and digital formats. The project has drawn literary comparisons, with fans noting that Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun would have appreciated its sound.
Five-piece funeral death doom band from Berlin, delivering crushing heaviness through releases including Path Of Tombs, The Omnipresence of Loss, and a 2024 split with Calliophis. Their sound dwells in the most oppressive corners of doom and death metal, creating monolithic walls of despair.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Bristol, England, active since 2020 and channeling heavyweight fuzz from one of the UK's most creative music cities. Their sound draws from Bristol's rich tradition of heavy, bass-driven music.
Urze is a black metal and dungeon synth project from Porto, Portugal, composed by Sephirus Oakborn, weaving medieval fantasy narratives through neoclassical and dark ambient textures since 2006. Their 2023 album A Kingdom's Last Reverie conjures the melancholic ghost of an ancient kingdom faded into memory.
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