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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
De Doorn (2021)
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Vriezenveen-based thrash metal act active since 2022, 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 Dutch filter.
Brutal death metal band from Chur, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They deliver uncompromising brutality from the oldest town in Switzerland.
Kozani-based death metal act active since 2008, 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.
Death metal outfit from Novorossiysk, formed in 2022. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Death/black metal band from Trachslau, Switzerland, active since 2015. They merge death and black metal in the shadow of the Swiss Alps.
Czech black/death/doom metal band from Volyně, formed in 2021. They weave together the aggression of black and death metal with doom metal's crushing weight for a multi-layered extreme metal sound.
French death metal band from Lille, formed in 2020. They deliver chaotic death metal from the capital of northern France.
Emerging in 2017 from Reggio di Calabria, 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 brutal death metal and grindcore band from Stuttgart, formed in 2018. They deliver scalding blasts of brutal death-grind extremity.
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