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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
De Doorn (2021)
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Four-piece metalcore band from Derby, formed in 2019, influenced by Arch Enemy, Darkest Hour, and Trivium. Their prolific output including Together We Rise and United We Fall combines powerful riffs, thrashy drums, and melodic hooks with socially meaningful messaging.
German death metal band from Duisburg, formed in 2017. They deliver punishing death metal from the industrial heartland of the Ruhr.
German melodic black/death metal band from Nuremberg, formed in 2024. They weave melodic passages into a foundation of black and death metal from one of Bavaria's cultural centers.
Thrash metal outfit from Čakovec, formed in 2014. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Death metal outfit from Kraków, formed in 2021. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
French thrash/death metal band from Boulogne-sur-Mer, active since 2005. They deliver two decades of thrash-death from the Channel coast of northern France.
Finnish death/black metal project formed in 2021. Named after Buddhist monks, they merge death and black metal with ascetic intensity.
Września-based death metal act active since 2020, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Melodic death metal outfit from Lisbon, formed in 2018. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
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