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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Wild Child (2023)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Black metal horde from Erlangen in Franconia, formed in 2018 and delivering savage, chaotic black metal from the Bavarian underground. Their name signals allegiance to disorder and primal darkness.
Laying down tracks since 2018, this Skellefteå Black Metal outfit delivers tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Their place within a growing underground metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
When Khaosphere emerged in 2020 from Bari, they brought with them a sound rooted in experimental — all guttural ferocity meeting hardcore's physical impact head-on. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Black metal project from the Uusimaa region of Finland, active since 2015 and channeling chaotic darkness through atmospheric compositions. Their chaos-referencing name captures the turbulent spirit of their sound.
Thrash metal band from Toledo in central Spain, formed in 2018 and channeling the historic city's warrior heritage into high-speed aggression. Their chaotic-existence name matches the turbulent energy of their thrash metal.
The Dutch city of Utrecht / South Holland serves as headquarters for this death metal and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Black/death metal project from Oulu, formed in 2024 and representing the newest wave of extreme metal from Finland's north. Their chaotic name signals the turbulent, genre-blending nature of their sound.
Amersfoort-based death metal act, active since 2013 delivering technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Rooted in a country that punches well above its weight in extreme metal, their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Wielding black metal as their weapon, this Swedish outfit from Östersund has been refining their craft since 2019. Their sound hinges on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere, delivered with punishing consistency.
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