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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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Lisbon-based crossover thrash act active since 2015, smashing together thrash metal's riff-driven velocity with punk's stripped-down aggression and DIY ethos. Their short, sharp compositions hit with the impact of a circle pit in a phone booth.
Gothenburg-based death metal act active since 2022, 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.
French brutal death metal and grindcore band from Saint-Omer in Pas-de-Calais, formed in 2017. They deliver terrifying blasts of brutal death-grind from the far north of France.
Thrash metal outfit from Dundalk, formed in 2019. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German melodic death metal and metalcore band from Fürstenwalde, formed in 2009. They fuse Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with the rhythmic intensity and breakdowns of metalcore.
German groove/death metal band from Sinsheim, formed in 2010. They combine groove metal's heavy rhythmic foundation with death metal's guttural vocal assault.
Finnish doom metal and death 'n' roll band from Tampere, formed in 2023. They combine doom metal's crushing weight with death 'n' roll's groovy swagger.
Tver-based black metal act active since 2006, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Russian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
German death 'n' roll band from Stuttgart, formed in 2019. They channel the rock-and-roll swagger of death 'n' roll, combining death metal's heaviness with hard rock grooves.
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