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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Moscow-based industrial metal act active since 2012, fusing mechanical rhythms and electronic textures with heavy guitar distortion. Their cold, precise sound channels the genre's tradition of merging human aggression with machine-like efficiency.
Spanish black metal band from Santander in Cantabria, formed in 2020. They forge dark black metal from the Atlantic coast of northern Spain.
Heavy metal and hard rock band from Andover in Hampshire, formed in 2017, described as the British bridge between metal and rock. Their releases including Consume and Untold have built a loyal following across the south of England.
San Antonio metallic hardcore influenced by NYHC. Released on Deathwish Inc.
Doom/sludge metal power trio from Exeter, formed in 2025, drawing from Crowbar, Eyehategod, Bolt Thrower, and Black Sabbath. Their early demos deliver crushing South West sludge with riffs that span the spectrum from classic doom to death metal weight.
German heavy metal band from Berlin, formed in 2025. They represent the newest generation of Berlin's traditional heavy metal scene.
Niš-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2016. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
Moscow-based funeral doom project active since 2016, stretching compositions to their absolute breaking point through glacial tempos and overwhelming sonic density. Their music moves with the slow inevitability of geological time.
French stoner/sludge metal band from Castelfranc in Lot, formed in 2010. They deliver heavy stoner-sludge from the remote rural southwest of France.
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