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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Death/doom outfit from Budapest, formed in 2017. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Bipolar Noise is an extreme metal band from Jacareí, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2021. The trio blends grindcore, death metal, and hardcore with psychedelic lyrical themes and shifting tempos, releasing the EP "Necrocão" on Bandcamp.
Doom metal outfit from Gorizia, formed in 2014. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
Finnish black metal band from Turku, formed in 2026. They represent the newest wave of Finnish black metal.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Norilsk, active since 2024. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Växjö grindcore veterans delivering absurdist, tongue-in-cheek blasting since the late 1990s. Their humorous lyrical approach and relentless blast beats have made them one of Sweden's most enduring grindcore acts.
Atmospheric and progressive sludge/post-metal project from Oostende, Belgium, active since 2013. Their demo "Hal," recorded at QWI Studios in Ichtegem, layers psychedelic textures over crushing sludge and post-metal dynamics.
Avaldsnes-based gothic/doom metal act active since 2015, pairing doom metal's crushing weight with dark romantic atmospheres and melancholic keyboard textures. Their compositions weave sorrowful melodies through a foundation of slow, heavy riffing.
Norwich post-metal five-piece formed in 2024, operating at the intersection of dream violence, doomgaze, post-metal, and sludge. Their 2025 debut bless the spark that found its home layers dense, crushing instrumentation with emotionally intense vocals exploring mental health and internal struggle.
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