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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Emerging in 2019 from Kavala, 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.
Uncompromising death metal from Gamleby, active since 2013. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Danish death metal band from Silkeborg, formed in 2016. They deliver gutter-dwelling death metal from the lake district of central Jutland.
Since 2024, this Croatian thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Beli Manastir. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Spanish melodic death metal band from A Coruña in Galicia, formed in 2013. They deliver fierce melodic death metal from the Atlantic coast of northwestern Spain.
German brutal death metal band from Giessen, formed in 2019. They deliver unrelenting brutal death metal from the Hessian university town.
Finnish death metal and hardcore band from Helsinki, formed in 2014. They fuse death metal brutality with hardcore's confrontational energy.
Death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2011. They represent a stalwart force in the Belarusian death metal underground.
Benevento-based deathcore act active since 2022, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
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