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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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German heavy metal band from Hamburg, formed in 2020. They play melodic, riff-focused heavy metal from Germany's second-largest city.
Bloodfire is a heavy metal band from Floriano, Piauí, Brazil, operating as an independent act. The band has released material including the single "In the Name of Metal," part of the EP "Dangerous Game," and maintains a presence on SoundCloud and social media. They are listed on the Encyclopaedia Metallum and represent the heavy metal scene in the interior of northeastern Brazil.
German melodic death metal band from Salem in Baden-Württemberg, formed in 2017. They forge melodic death metal with sharp songwriting from the shores of Lake Constance.
Bloodforge is a gothic/doom/heavy metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, known for blending female vocals with male and guttural vocals, drawing influences from doom metal, gothic metal, 1980s heavy metal, and 1970s progressive rock. The band released the EP "Forged" in 2005 and "Screaming Voices" in 2010, and completed recording on a full-length titled "Struggle" in 2016. The lineup features Estefania Bonfanti on vocals alongside multi-instrumentalists including guitarist Tiago Wolf and keyboardist Marcus Lopes.
German black metal project formed in 2025. They deliver visceral black metal with an uncompromising approach.
Finnish death/thrash metal band formed in 2020. They channel erupting death-thrash intensity.
German thrash metal band from Frankfurt, active since 1991. With over three decades of history, they are one of the Rhine-Main region's longest-running thrash acts.
Utrecht Province-based death metal act active since 2013, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Emerging in 2019 from Kavala, 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.
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