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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Vilnius-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2021, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Doom metal band from Bristol, active since 2013. Their extensive catalog including Decade of Darkness and Alone in a Dying World channels dark, heavy atmospheres through the lens of Bristol's deep underground doom tradition.
Progressive death metal outfit from Sweden, formed in 2026. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Black Cobra are a sludge and doom metal duo from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2001 by guitarist/vocalist Jason Landrian and drummer Rafael Martinez, who generate a surprisingly massive sonic footprint for a two-piece. Their early releases Bestial (2006) and Feather & Stone (2007) established a heavy, groove-oriented sound drawing equally from doom, sludge, and noise rock, and the band maintained a prolific output throughout the 2000s and 2010s with releases on Southern Lord and Season of Mist.
Black Cocaine is a Brazilian raw black metal and noise project formed in 2022 and released under Podreira Records, a DIY underground label based in Catanduva, São Paulo. The band released the demo "Reality, Insanity, Drugs..." in 2022, operating firmly within Brazil's lo-fi extreme underground.
French death 'n' roll and crust punk band from Besançon, formed in 2012. They combine death metal grooves with crust punk's raw urgency.
Spanish black metal band from Zaragoza, formed in 2014. They channel black metal darkness from the arid Aragonese capital.
Oslo-based thrash metal act active since 2016, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Norwegian filter.
Black Communion was a black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2016 and later split up. The band operated as an independent act with themes rooted in Satanism and the occult, releasing a self-titled recording available on Bandcamp.
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