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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Sharing (2022)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
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Progressive metal outfit from Stockholm, formed in 2014. Their work incorporates odd time signatures, extended instrumental passages, and dynamic contrasts that elevate their sound beyond standard metal fare.
Progressive metal band from Plovdiv, Bulgaria, active since 2019. They craft intricate compositions from Bulgaria's second-largest city.
Spanish death metal band from Madrid, formed in 2014. They play crushing death metal from the Spanish capital.
Spanish thrash/death metal band from Carballo in Galicia, formed in 2013. They deliver broken-flow thrash-death from the Atlantic coast of A Coruña province.
Melodic death/thrash metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, active since 2017. They bring melodic aggression from Switzerland's cosmopolitan French-speaking metropolis.
Heavy/power/thrash metal band from Vannes in Brittany, formed in 2024. Their debut Waiting for the End is an eleven-track album of groove-inflected death-thrash with tracks like Prophet's Razor Blade and Trip In Hell spanning over fifty minutes of relentless heaviness.
Drawing from the contemplative side of black metal, this Swedish project channels Söderhamn's spirit into sweeping, atmosphere-laden compositions. Since 2017, their recordings balance raw aggression with passages of fragile, melancholic beauty.
Spanish heavy/power metal band from Cerdanyola del Vallès near Barcelona, formed in 2015. They forge bronze-cast heavy and power metal from the Catalan suburbs.
Spanish groove metal and metalcore band from Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country, formed in 2026. They represent the newest wave of Basque metal.
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