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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Death/doom outfit from Budapest, formed in 2017. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Punishing brutal death metal from Athens, formed in 2012. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Nitra-based melodic death metal act active since 2024, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
German melodic black/death metal band from Bamberg, formed in 2017. They blend melodic black and death metal with heavy rock influences for a versatile, genre-crossing sound.
Death/black metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, active since 2014. They deliver aggressive extremity blending the savagery of death and black metal from the Potteries underground.
Finnish melodic death/power/groove metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2016. They weave together three melodic metal styles with Finnish precision.
Progressive death metal outfit from Cabeceiras de Basto, formed in 2019. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Finnish progressive death metal band from Jämsänkoski, active since 2007. Named after the legendary werewolf, they deliver nearly two decades of lupine progressive death metal.
Death metal outfit from Norway, formed in 2013. 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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