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Doom/stoner/black metal project from Port Talbot in South Wales, active since 2020, describing their sound as lucid torture perpetuated by celestial forces. Their releases including Lurker of the Barathrum and Corrupt and Destroy channel dark, cosmic extremity across multiple related projects.
French symphonic metal band from the Nancy-Metz area in Lorraine, formed in 2022. They deliver soul-stirring symphonic metal from the historic eastern French region.
Finnish death metal band from Seinäjoki, formed in 2024. They deliver annihilating death metal from the South Ostrobothnia region.
Kyiv-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2019, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
Atmospheric black metal entity from Porto, formed in 2016. Their sound envelops the listener in walls of reverb-drenched tremolo picking and shimmering ambient passages that dissolve the boundary between beauty and ferocity.
Solo thrash/black metal project from Port Talbot, created by Zaraza in 2022 under the banner of egregious blood rituals. The debut album My Revenge blends raw lo-fi black metal with blackened punk and crust, recorded and performed entirely by one person.
Benümb were a grindcore and powerviolence band from the San Francisco Bay Area, formed in 1994 in Millbrae, California. Their debut full-length Soul of the Martyr (1998) was a chaotic and highly regarded document of the West Coast powerviolence scene, and the band maintained their intensity through Withering Strands of Hope (2000) and By Means of Upheaval (2003) on Relapse Records before disbanding in 2006. Several members went on to form Agenda of Swine.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Poland, active since 2012. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Beraza Chainsaw Massacre are a death metal band from Berazategui, on the southern outskirts of Greater Buenos Aires, active since 2017. They released their album Premeditación y alevosía in October 2018, announcing themselves as a brutally focused act in the Buenos Aires underground death metal scene. The band continues to release music independently through their Bandcamp page.
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