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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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Czech death metal band from Varnsdorf, formed in 2014. They channel old-school death metal brutality with an emphasis on visceral, unrelenting heaviness.
German black/death metal band from Berlin, formed in 2024. They bring savage black/death metal to the capital's underground.
Spanish melodic death/groove metal and metalcore band from Mieres in Asturias, formed in 2012. They blend three aggressive styles with melodic sensibility from the Asturian mining valleys.
Death metal outfit from Kraków, formed in 2020. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
German death metal band from Berlin, formed in 2013. They deliver storming death metal from Berlin's expansive extreme metal community.
Emerging in 2019 from Kingston upon Hull, 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.
Spanish death metal and grindcore band from Gijón in Asturias, formed in 2019. They deliver grim death-grind from the industrial Cantabrian coast.
St. Albans-based stoner/sludge metal outfit active since 2012, laying down thick, fuzz-caked riffs that move at a lumbering, hypnotic pace. Their sound occupies the hazy intersection where stoner metal's psychedelic warmth meets sludge's abrasive hostility.
Otley-based death metal act active since 2020, 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.
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