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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
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Vertikal I & II + Bonus & Demos (2023)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Progressive death metal band from Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, active since 2014. Named after the mythological headless people of ancient lore, they explore complex compositional territory within the death metal framework.
Pagan/atmospheric black metal project from Glenridding in the Lake District, formed in 2017, inspired by the legends and landscapes of northern England. Their releases capture an ancient, primal atmosphere rooted in the rugged terrain of Cumbria.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Moscow, active since 2025. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Power metal band from Sliven, Bulgaria, active since 2016. They deliver the soaring melodies and driving rhythms characteristic of European power metal.
Emerging in 2015 from Gdynia, this death metal act channels the genre's primal aggression through tight, riff-driven compositions. Their recordings carry the unmistakable weight of classic death metal.
Power metal outfit from Kharkiv, formed in 2019. Their sound combines high-register vocals with twin-guitar harmonies and double-bass drumming in the grand tradition of melodic heavy metal.
German thrash metal band from Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, formed in 2016. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash metal from the northeastern German underground.
Blessed is a death metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The band is notable in the local extreme metal history as former members went on to form Rebaelliun, a prominent Brazilian brutal death metal act that gained international recognition in the late 1990s. Blessed operated as an independent act and has since split up.
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