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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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Thrash metal outfit from Como, formed in 2005. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German black metal band from Münster, formed in 2015. They deliver pestilent black metal from the Westphalian university city.
French goregrind band from the Île-de-France region, formed in 2017. They deliver revolting goregrind from the Parisian metropolitan area.
Spanish doom/death/sludge metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2017. They merge three crushing subgenres into a massive, suffocating wall of sound.
German heavy metal band with power metal elements from Petersberg, formed in 2013. They combine traditional heavy metal with the epic grandeur of power metal.
Blaze Bayley, the Tamworth-born vocalist best known as the frontman of Wolfsbane and as Iron Maiden's lead singer from 1994 to 1999. His extensive solo career spans albums from Silicon Messiah through Promise and Terror, showcasing his powerful and expressive vocal ability in the heavy metal tradition.
Death/thrash outfit from Verona, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Lublin black metal force active since 2007, exploring occult spirituality and nihilism through sophisticated, atmosphere-laden compositions on Metal Blade Records. Their albums, including 2024's Upharsin, demonstrate a band capable of evolving within black metal's framework while maintaining an intense, ritualistic core.
Atmospheric black/folk metal project from Mantua, active since 2005, weaving pastoral Italian landscapes into tremolo-driven black metal with folk instrumentation. Their music evokes the mist-shrouded plains of the Po Valley through a distinctly Mediterranean interpretation of Nordic-influenced atmospherics.
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