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Forged in 2011 from Russia, 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.
German black metal band from the Black Forest region, formed in 2013. Their forested namesake and location perfectly complement their atmospheric black metal drawn from the deep woods of southwestern Germany.
Brant Bjork is a Palm Desert, California musician best known as a founding drummer and songwriter of Kyuss, the desert rock band he helped form in the late 1980s alongside Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri, and John Garcia. After departures from Kyuss and Fu Manchu, Bjork launched a prolific solo career beginning with Jalamanta (1999), exploring funk-inflected stoner rock, acoustic desert blues, and heavy psych across more than a dozen solo albums on labels including Low Desert Punk and Heavy Psych Sounds. He remains one of the most recognized ambassadors of the Southern California Palm Desert scene that gave birth to the stoner rock movement.
Brutal death metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2023. A young act delivering punishing, guttural extremity in the French brutal death metal underground.
Punishing brutal death metal from Radomsko, formed in 2021. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German death/thrash/doom metal band from Krölpa in Thuringia, formed in 2016. They blend three heavy genres into a savage, multifaceted assault.
Czech experimental grindcore and death metal band from Prague, active since 1996, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Czech extreme music underground. Their nearly three decades of output blends grindcore chaos with death metal heaviness and experimental unpredictability.
's-Hertogenbosch-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2024, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
Bravecore is a metalcore band from the São Paulo and Guarulhos area of Brazil, formed in 2021. Drawing influence from acts such as As I Lay Dying, Lamb of God, and Asking Alexandria, the band writes lyrics in both Portuguese and English covering motivational, introspective, and political themes. They released their debut EP "Devastação" in 2021 and have appeared at multiple editions of the Metalcore Fest in São Paulo.
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