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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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French deathcore band from Montguyon, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing deathcore from the rural Charente-Maritime countryside.
Emerging in 2026 from Revúca, 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 death/thrash metal band from Fulda, active since 2010. They combine death and thrash metal's brutal energies from the Hessian city at the crossroads of Germany.
French death/thrash metal band from Toulon on the Mediterranean, formed in 2018. They deliver ritualistic death-thrash from the Provençal naval port.
Albanian melodic black/death metal act from Tirana, formed in 2021, striving to bring a distinctly Albanian character to extreme metal. Their demo material blends tremolo-picked melodies with death metal aggression.
German thrash/death/black metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2010. They draw from three extreme metal traditions for a wide-ranging, vengeance-fueled assault.
German black/death metal band from Munich, formed in 2010. They forge blackened death metal warfare from Bavaria's capital city.
Uncompromising death metal from Lancaster, active since 2020. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Finnish death metal band formed in 2017. They deliver blooming, putrid death metal from the Finnish underground.
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