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Viribus Unitis (2025)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (2012)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Emerging from Zwolle's underground, this progressive metal act has been forging thunderous sonic fury since 2024. Tight compositions and aggressive delivery characterize their particular approach.
Hesper Payne is a doom/death metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2006. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Hesperion is a progressive/power metal band from Irpin, Ukraine, active since 2015 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Bred in Amsterdam's underground, this act delivers grim progressive doom/post-metal since 2023. Slow, deliberate riffing and suffocating atmospheres form the foundation of their craft.
Doom/sludge metal band from Limburg, Germany, formed in 2025. Their crushing, slow-tempo compositions deliver the suffocating weight of doom and sludge from the Lahn valley.
Stoner doom metal act from Suffolk in East Anglia, active since 2015. Their tribal name adds a primal quality to heavy, groove-laden compositions from England's rural eastern counties.
Heavy metal band from Ourense, Spain, active since 2007. Named after the Greek goddess of the hearth, they deliver nearly two decades of traditional heavy metal from inland Galicia.
Post-metal and depressive black metal project from Kosice, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. Their sound merges the atmospheric weight of post-metal with the emotional desolation of depressive black metal.
Menacing atmospheric/psychedelic black metal project from Riga, carving a path through Latvia's underground since 2021. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
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