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German melodic and progressive death metal band from Munich and Passau, formed in 2024. They weave progressive structures through melodic death metal foundations.
German technical deathcore band from Munich, formed in 2022. They push deathcore into technical extremity with precise musicianship and complex arrangements.
Bleak Transcendence is a funeral doom/death metal trio from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2023 by Alexandre Antunes, Michael Siegwarth, and Wagner Müller. The band released their debut album "Mortuanima" in May 2025, a 48-minute work fusing the ferocious intensity of death metal with hauntingly slow funeral doom, enriched by synths, violins, and ethereal textures conveying desolation and introspection.
Bleak Wind is an atmospheric black metal solo project from Bom Despacho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, created by Marina Sant'Ana. The project has released a steady stream of independent recordings since 2019, including "Memories to Forget..." (2019), "Light and Darkness" (2021), and several releases in 2023–2025, crafting introspective, melancholic soundscapes rooted in atmospheric black metal.
Sludge/post-metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, formed in 2014, described as ferocious but tempered with quiet introspection. Their album D U S T features three extended compositions spanning up to nineteen minutes, blending sludge metal weight with post-rock dynamics.
Gusev-based doom metal act active since 2017, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Manchester blackened sludge/doom band formed in 2023, delivering wave after wave of crushing sludge. Their self-titled debut features five tracks across thirty-seven minutes, culminating in the eleven-minute closer Black Sky, and has drawn over fifty supporters on Bandcamp.
Sheffield progressive metal band active since 2009, with releases including L'Etranger and The Sunless Country alongside splits with The Ocean Fracture and Naisian. They operate at the intersection of progressive rock and metal with atmospheric, post-rock-informed sensibilities.
Death/doom outfit from Thessaloniki, formed in 2017. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
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