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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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Five-piece blackened deathcore outfit from Vienna, Austria, inspired by dark Alpine winter nights. Their 2024 debut "Mene Tekel" channels philosophical themes of existence and mortality through heavy, fast riffs and rough vocals with beatdown hardcore influences.
Czech pagan doom metal band from Pilsen, active since 2003 and self-described as hailing from Boiohaemum, the ancient name for Bohemia. Their releases including Bohemian Winter merge doom metal heaviness with pagan thematic elements.
German progressive death metal band from the Schwerte-Hagen-Schwelm area, formed in 2012. They layer technical complexity and progressive structures onto a death metal foundation.
Finnish melodic blackened death metal band formed in 2020. They blend blackened death metal with melodic elements, originally conceived as a comic webcomic project before becoming a full recording act.
French progressive black/death metal band from Bordeaux, formed in 2015. They merge progressive complexity with extreme metal from the wine capital of France.
Power metal outfit from Sweden, formed in 2011. Their sound combines high-register vocals with twin-guitar harmonies and double-bass drumming in the grand tradition of melodic heavy metal.
Deathcore band from the Beerse/Lille area of Belgium, active since 2012. They trade in the genre's signature combination of death metal technicality and hardcore breakdowns.
German progressive death metal band from Fürth, formed in 2021. They weave intricate progressive arrangements into a death metal framework from the heart of Franconia.
Metalcore and melodic death metal band from Leyland near Preston, formed in 2022, described as one of Preston's heaviest. Their album Absolution Denied features a five-piece lineup delivering crushing metalcore with melodic death metal intensity.
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