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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Chapters of Repugnance (Deluxe Reissue) (2018)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Apeldoorn-based death/thrash metal act active since 2013, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
Monza-based melodic death metal act active since 2013, 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.
Morsko-based death/thrash metal act active since 2014, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
Finnish heavy/stoner/death metal band from Tampere, formed in 2014. They blend three metal styles into a royal, riff-heavy assault from Finland's industrial heartland.
Death/thrash outfit from Milan, formed in 2009. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Budapest-based melodic death metal/metalcore act active since 2018, blending Gothenburg-inspired guitar harmonies with metalcore's dynamic structures and breakdown-driven intensity. Their sound bridges the melodic death metal tradition with modern extreme metal's visceral energy.
UK pagan black/death metal duo of Kolbladnyr and Ohynn, active since 2004. Their releases from Rites through the Ex Oblivione split with Prometheus Rising channel ancestral memory and nocturnal consciousness through atmospheric black metal with doom-death undertones.
Melodic death metal outfit from Montemor-o-Novo, formed in 2024. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
French symphonic black/death metal band from the Grand Est region, formed in 2013. They layer orchestral arrangements over extreme metal from eastern France.
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