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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Orliniec-based black metal act active since 2009, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Polish lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Forged in 2020 from Mosjøen, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Death/doom outfit from Sweden, formed in 2022. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Doom/sludge metal act from Szeged, formed in 2018. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Kyiv-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2015, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Orvieto (Terni)-based post-metal act active since 2015, building patient, dynamic compositions that arc from whispered ambient passages to walls of crushing distortion. Their sound draws from the tradition of Neurosis and Isis, prioritizing atmosphere and emotional narrative.
Boske are a Buenos Aires raw black metal project who have maintained a prolific output since 2021, releasing "Meditacion y muerte" and "Una leccion de Metal Negro" that year, followed by "Perseverancia y disciplina" in 2022 and "A punta de espada" in 2024. Their recordings lean hard into lo-fi production, visceral intensity, and an uncompromising fidelity to black metal's most primitive aesthetic. The band operates independently and remains active.
Grindcore act from Rome, formed in 2017. Their music exists in a state of perpetual detonation, packing blast beats and screamed vocals into compositions that rarely exceed the two-minute mark.
German melodic death metal band from Wangen im Allgäu, formed in 2022. They craft melodic death metal from the Alpine foothills of the Allgäu region.
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