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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Groove metal act from Nizhny Novgorod, formed in 2016. Contrabandist delivers heavy, riff-driven grooves from the Volga river city.
Melodic death-groove metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2021. They blend melodic guitar work with heavy grooves and death metal aggression.
Groove-thrash band from Tarvisio near the Austrian and Slovenian borders, active since 1997. Contrasto — Italian for 'contrast' — is one of Friuli's longest-running metal acts with nearly three decades of output.
Sofia-based groove and sludge metal act formed in 2011 by members of several Bulgarian underground bands including KPD-0, GRAD, and Osil Amuk. Their 2014 full-length Crawling Under The Heavy Foot Of Addiction layers stoner-tinged heaviness over grinding sludge grooves.
Groove-thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They combine heavy grooves with thrash speed from the Finnish capital.
Death-groove act from the Pabianice and Łódź area in central Poland, active since 2011. Cornada — Spanish for 'goring' — merges death metal weight with groove-driven rhythms.
Groove and stoner metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2020. They blend heavy grooves with stoner metal's fuzz-laden sound from the Loire Valley.
Groove metal band from Bailen in Jaen province, Spain, active since 2007. They deliver heavy, rhythm-driven metal from the Andalusian interior.
Groove and heavy metal band from Leon, Spain, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh groove-heavy metal energy to the Castilian scene.
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