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French heavy/speed metal band from Orléans, formed in 2014. They deliver witchy heavy and speed metal from the historic Loire Valley city.
Uncompromising death metal from Lancaster, active since 2020. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Bloodygoat Kommando is a raw black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2025. The band released a debut demo titled "Bloodygoat Conquers All!" through Shadow Resistance Productions, featuring tracks such as "Holocaust Katharsis (Intro)", "Bloodygoat Conquers All!", and "The New Dawn Of The Antichrist". Their lyrical themes center on Satanism, war, misanthropy, and hatred.
Bloodywood emerged from New Delhi, India in 2016, creating an explosive fusion of nu-metal and Indian folk music that features traditional instruments like the dhol and flute alongside crushing djent riffs. Their viral covers and original tracks amassed millions of YouTube views before their debut album 'Rakshak' proved the concept was more than a novelty. The band has become India's most internationally recognized metal act, bringing South Asian musical traditions to mosh pits around the world.
Finnish death metal band formed in 2017. They deliver blooming, putrid death metal from the Finnish underground.
French brutal death metal band from Paris, active since 2001. With over two decades of brutality, they are a seasoned force in Parisian death metal.
Progressive metal supergroup from San Antonio. Ron Jarzombek, Alex Webster, Hannes Grossmann.
Black metal project from Kumla, emerging in 2013. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Swedish origins.
Funeral doom entity from Oslo, formed in 2002. Their compositions unfold over vast stretches of time, building cavernous walls of distorted guitar that press down with the weight of a collapsing universe.
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