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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Finnish death/black metal project formed in 2021. Named after Buddhist monks, they merge death and black metal with ascetic intensity.
South-western Swedish atmospheric black/folk metal duo integrating traditional instruments including hurdy-gurdy, lyre, birch trumpet, and frame drums into their nature-worshipping compositions. Across a tetralogy of albums exploring Scandinavian folklore and the forests of their native region, they have crafted some of the most distinctive folk-inflected black metal in the Swedish underground.
Września-based death metal act active since 2020, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Forged in 2020 from Saint Petersburg, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Melodic death metal outfit from Lisbon, formed in 2018. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
Sludge/doom/death metal band from Sheffield, formed in 2010. They fuse the crushing weight of doom with death metal's intensity and sludge metal's abrasive grime from the steel city's underground.
Heavy metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2020. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Spanish black metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2018. They deliver two-headed black metal from the industrial heart of the Basque Country.
French sludge metal band from Reims in Champagne, formed in 2019. They craft crushing sludge metal from the city of coronations.
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