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Savage Black / Death Metal out of Texas.
Founded after a night at a pirate-themed bar in Umeå, Sweden in 2008 by Björn Malmros and Peter Mollwing, Ye Banished Privateers have grown into a collective of nearly thirty musicians performing sea shanties, folk rock, and folk metal built around 17th- and 18th-century piracy and maritime history. Their live performances blend music with theatrical costume and staging, functioning as a hybrid of concert and historical reenactment. After self-releasing Songs and Curses (2012), the band eventually signed with Napalm Records and released Hostis Humani Generis (2020) and 'Til the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead (2025).
Formed in Norrköping, Sweden around 2006 by Thomas Sabbathi, Year of the Goat operate within the occult rock tradition, fusing proto-metal heaviness, psychedelic hard rock, and gothic doom with esoteric lyrical themes in the lineage of Blue Öyster Cult, Witchfinder General, and In Solitude. Their debut Angels' Necropolis (2012) established the template, and the subsequent albums The Unspeakable (2015) and Novis Orbis Terrarum Ordinis (2019) sustained critical recognition within heavy rock and doom circles. The 2025 album Trivia Goddess, released through Napalm Records, took the historically documented persecution of women by religious and patriarchal power as its conceptual framework.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2024 as a concept project born from personal darkness. The band donates their profits to support those affected by war, blending classic heavy and thrash metal with a humanitarian mission across their self-titled album.
Doom metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2019. The band channels crushing, slow-tempo heaviness in the tradition of classic British doom, building on the rich legacy of heavy music from the north of England.
Melodic death metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2017 with influences ranging from Amon Amarth to folk and pagan metal. Their EP "Apocalyptic Tales And Legends From The Epic Underworld" alternates between melodic, driving passages and more directly brutal attacks across five tracks.
Black metal project from Turkey, formed in 2015 and named after a monstrous creature from Turkic mythology. The project channels raw black metal fury through a lens of Central Asian mythology and folklore.
Yellow Fever is a traditional heavy metal band from the coastal region of Paraná, Brazil, that grew out of an earlier project called Demon's Crest, which operated from 2014 to 2017 before the name change. Drawing on classic heavy metal themes of history, fantasy, and science fiction, the band built a following in the independent Brazilian underground scene before splitting up.
Black metal/punk band from Greece, formed in 2019 with lyrics sung entirely in Greek. Their self-titled 2019 demo delivers four tracks of raw, nihilistic extreme metal blending black metal ferocity with punk energy.
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