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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
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Stockholm-based thrash metal act active since 2017, 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 Swedish filter.
German black metal band from Lübeck, active since 2008. They channel the cold atmosphere of the Baltic coast into their black metal sound.
Spanish death/doom metal band from Vic in Catalonia, formed in 2024. They craft shrouded death-doom from the interior of the Catalan countryside.
BlackSkull is a speed/heavy metal band from Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil. Founded by guitarist/vocalist Fernando Cellarius, bassist André Arnaut, and drummer Lourenço Sant'Anna, the band plays hard-hitting speed metal with lyrical themes covering power, politics, war, and the metal way of life.
Finnish melodic death/black metal band from Jyväskylä, formed in 2015. They forge melodic extreme metal with the skill and precision of their namesake craft.
German stoner metal band from Würzburg, formed in 2014. They deliver heavy, fuzz-drenched stoner metal from the heart of Franconia.
Spanish black metal band from Cuenca, formed in 2019. They forge black metal from the dramatic cliff-side city of Castilla-La Mancha.
Przemyśl-based thrash/stoner metal act active since 2013, fusing thrash metal's riff-driven aggression with stoner metal's fuzz-drenched groove. Their unconventional hybrid delivers both headbanging intensity and heavy, laid-back swagger.
Södertälje-based black metal act active since 2017, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Swedish lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
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