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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Thrash metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Thessaloniki-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.
German death metal band from Nuremberg, formed in 2026. They represent the newest generation of Nuremberg's death metal underground.
Uncompromising death metal from Mena, active since 2007. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Finnish death/stoner metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2017. They blend death metal's brutality with stoner metal's hazy riffs.
German melodic death metal band from the Hohenthann-Landshut area in Lower Bavaria, formed in 2022. They craft melodic death metal with insane intensity from rural Bavaria.
German death metal band from Neuruppin in Brandenburg, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing death metal from the lakeland region northeast of Berlin.
Finnish blackened melodic death metal band from Laitila, formed in 2023. They merge black metal's darkness with melodic death metal harmonies under a bloody moon.
French melodic death metal band from Strasbourg, formed in 2013. They craft prideful melodic death metal from the Alsatian capital.
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