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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Blood Flowing is a depressive and atmospheric black metal project from Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2025. The project describes its music as a personal confession rather than an artistic endeavor, releasing material including the album "To Live Is To Suffer... And I Am Tired Of Living" and a split with Old Ugly Trees. Their sound sits firmly within the depressive suicidal black metal (DSBM) tradition.
Boston's Blood for Blood were one of the hardest and most controversial bands in the '90s hardcore scene, blending metallic hardcore with street punk grit and unflinching working-class anger. Vocalist Buddha's menacing delivery on albums like 'Revenge on Society' and 'Spit My Last Breath' made the band a lightning rod for both devotion and criticism. Their raw, no-apologies approach to hardcore influenced a generation of tough-guy hardcore bands that followed.
French stoner metal band from Montbéliard, formed in 2021. They deliver heavy stoner metal from the Franche-Comté industrial region.
Black metal project from Maladzyechna, Belarus, formed in 2025. A newly formed act channeling black metal darkness from the Minsk region.
Portuguese melodic black metal project active since 2020, tempering raw aggression with sweeping arrangements and harmonized guitar leads. Their approach balances the genre's inherent hostility with moments of dark grandeur.
Blood from the Soul is a British industrial metal and grindcore project centered on Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury. The debut album To Spite the Gland That Breeds (Earache Records, 1993), featuring Sick of It All vocalist Lou Koller, was a solo creation by Embury that fused grindcore, punk, and industrial textures alongside contemporaries Godflesh, Meathook Seed, and Scorn. After a lengthy hiatus, Embury reformed the project in 2020 with vocalist Jacob Bannon (Converge), drummer Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth), and bassist Jesper Liveröd (Nasum), releasing the follow-up DSM-5 that same year.
English industrial-tinged extreme metal project fusing black, death, and gothic metal with martial industrial textures across releases like Songs For The Cruel Aeon and Glimpse of the Aeon. Their sound evokes apocalyptic grandeur through layered electronic atmospherics and crushing metallic weight.
German heavy metal and hard rock band from Stuttgart, formed in 2017. They deliver powerful, riff-driven heavy metal with hard rock swagger.
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