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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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German melodic death metal and metalcore band from Munich and Holzkirchen, formed in 2018. They pair melodic death metal harmonies with metalcore's punchy breakdowns from Upper Bavaria.
Death/thrash outfit from Soncino (Cremona), formed in 2019. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
French black/death metal band from Alençon in Normandy, formed in 2019. They deliver lordly black/death metal from the Norman countryside.
Great Harwood-based thrash metal act active since 2019, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a British filter.
Doom metal outfit from Nacka (early)/Handen (later), formed in 2020. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
Ioannina-based melodic black metal project active since 2013, tempering raw aggression with sweeping arrangements and harmonized guitar leads. Their approach balances the genre's inherent hostility with moments of dark grandeur.
Finnish death/thrash metal band from Joensuu, formed in 2020. They carve a bloody path of death-thrash through the eastern Finnish forest.
Amersfoort-based death metal act active since 2019, 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.
Finnish death metal band from Jyväskylä, formed in 2018. They deliver pulse-pounding death metal from central Finland.
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