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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Death Doom Punks (2026)
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We Rule the Waves (2025)
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Edinburgh-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2024. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
Finnish death metal and goregrind band from Joensuu, formed in 2025. They deliver blistering death-grind from eastern Finland.
Emerging in 2022 from Bodø, this death metal act channels the genre's primal aggression through tight, riff-driven compositions. Their recordings carry the unmistakable weight of classic death metal.
German melodic death metal band from Emden in East Frisia, active since 2001. With over two decades of output, they are one of the North Sea coast's most seasoned melodeath acts.
Leidschendam-based melodic thrash metal act active since 1999, tempering the genre's trademark aggression with harmonized guitar leads and dynamic songwriting. Their approach delivers thrash metal's visceral energy without sacrificing melodic accessibility.
Death-grind act from Glasgow, formed in 2023. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
German metalcore/thrash/death metal band from Berlin, formed in 2011. They fuse metalcore breakdowns with thrash and death metal aggression for a multifaceted extreme sound.
French death metal and grindcore band from Nancy and Marbache, formed in 2012. They deliver headbashing death-grind from the Lorraine region.
French death metal band from Colmar in Alsace, formed in 2014. They deliver blood-themed death metal from the picturesque Rhine Valley wine route.
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