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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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German death/thrash/groove metal band from Heiligenhaus, formed in 2009. They combine the speed of thrash with death metal's heaviness and groove metal's rhythmic punch for a multi-faceted assault.
Chernihiv-based death metal/deathcore act active since 2015, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with modern breakdown-heavy dynamics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Finnish melodic death/thrash metal band from Joensuu, formed in 2011. They deliver backstabbing melodeath-thrash from the eastern Finnish lake district.
German death/thrash metal band from Erfurt and Jena, formed in 2019. They combine the technicality and aggression of death and thrash metal with a tongue-in-cheek sensibility evident in their name.
Death metal band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, active since 2013. They forge death metal from the industrial heart of Moravia-Silesia.
Death/groove metal band from Uhersky Brod, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. They pair death metal's extremity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Spanish death metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2017. They channel death metal intensity from the industrial heart of the Basque Country.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Kokkola, formed in 2021. They craft melodic death metal from the Central Ostrobothnian coast.
Death metal outfit from Modena, formed in 2010. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
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