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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Voronezh-based power metal act active since 2012, delivering anthemic heavy metal built on soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and melodic guitar leads. Their compositions embrace the genre's tradition of epic songwriting and technical proficiency.
German sludge/doom/southern metal band from Sondershausen in Thuringia, active since 2009. They fuse sludge and doom metal's crushing weight with southern metal's swagger and groove.
German death metal band from Gronau/Epe on the Dutch border, formed in 2024. They deliver brutal death metal from the western edge of Westphalia.
German black metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2016. They channel lunar darkness into raw, atmospheric black metal.
German melodic death metal band from Fulda, formed in 2012. They craft Tolkien-inspired melodic death metal from the Hessian highlands.
Rome-based groove metal act active since 2016, anchoring their sound in mid-tempo, syncopated riffing designed to generate maximum physical impact. Their chunky, headbang-inducing compositions channel the spirit of Pantera and Lamb of God.
Black Motor Chimps is a Stoner Metal power trio from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed around 2019–2020. The band—consisting of Plínio Grecco (vocals/bass), Claudio Moreira (guitar), and Alfredo Malagoli (drums)—draws from blues, grunge, and heavy stoner metal. Their self-titled debut EP features four tracks including “Cold Heart Witch” and “Gravity of Tone.”
Heavy Doom / Sludge Metal / Grunge out of Texas.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Russia, active since 2020. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
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