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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Groove metal and metalcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2025, delivering heavy grooves and breakdowns from the French capital. They bring modern aggression to the Parisian metal scene.
Groove, black, and death metal band from Hameenlinna, Finland, formed in 2022, named after the alleged military conspiracy. They blend multiple strands of extreme metal into a versatile, hard-hitting sound.
Berlin's Placenta has evolved from death-thrash-groove origins into a more deathcore-oriented sound, reflecting the German capital's tendency toward genre mutation. Their stylistic shape-shifting mirrors Berlin's own constantly transforming cultural landscape.
Named after the psychoactive mushroom genus, Laudio's Psilocybe has been dispensing thrash metal with hallucinatory intensity since 2016. Their Basque Country setting connects them to Álava's underground scene, where extreme music thrives in small but passionate communities.
Giessen's PlasmaJet fuses stoner grooves with Southern rock swagger and groove metal punch since 2015. Their Hessian university-town origins produce a surprisingly sun-baked sound more evocative of the American Deep South than Central Germany.
Groove metal band from Radzionkow, Poland, formed in 2015, delivering heavy, rhythmically driven groove metal from the Silesian industrial heartland. They bring headbanging grooves to the Upper Silesian metal scene.
Kassel's Paroxysm has been delivering short, sharp shocks of grindcore fury since 2021. Their Hessian base connects them to a German grind tradition that prioritizes intensity and brevity in equal measure.
Groove and thrash metal band bridging Argentina and the Czech Republic, based in Pardubice, formed in 2015. Their bicultural identity fuels a crossover sound that blends hardcore energy with thrash and groove metal riffing across releases like Vida y Muerte and Iluze.
Groove and death metal band from Czestochowa, Poland, formed in 2021, delivering infectious heaviness from the city famous for its Black Madonna shrine. They bring rhythmic aggression to the Lesser Poland region.
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