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Featured Album
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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Västerås death metal/crust outfit blending Swedish death metal's buzzsaw tone with d-beat punk energy. Their explosive, raw approach embodies the crossover between Scandinavia's extreme metal and hardcore punk traditions.
German death/thrash metal band from Aschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt, formed in 2017. They deliver explosive death-thrash from the eastern German lowlands.
Finnish melodic death metal band from the Kuopio-Varkaus region, formed in 2021. They craft melodic death metal from the lake country of Savonia.
Death/thrash outfit from Corby, formed in 2013. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Spanish deathcore band from Madrid, formed in 2011, whose sound evolved from technical deathcore toward symphonic deathcore. Their stylistic shift reflects an increasingly epic and orchestral approach to extremity.
Finnish death metal band from Lahti, formed in 2016. They deliver bone-grinding death metal from the Päijänne Tavastia region.
Black/death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2019. They forge a savage hybrid of black and death metal extremity.
Finnish thrash/melodic death metal band from Porvoo, formed in 2025. They deliver cutting thrash-melodeath from the historic coastal town east of Helsinki.
Faversham-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2014, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
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