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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Death 'n' roll and industrial metal band from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2017. They fuse the groove of death 'n' roll with industrial metal's mechanical edge.
German melodic death metal and metalcore band from Berlin, formed in 2024. They bring Scandinavian melodeath influences together with metalcore dynamics to Berlin's thriving metal scene.
Belgian chainsaw grind act from Flanders, featuring former members of Aborted, Agathocles, Emeth, and Human Vivisection. Their prolific output of full-lengths, splits, and demos showcases the furious HM2-driven grindcore and death metal attack they've sustained since 2021.
Solo death/doom project from Wessex, described as esoteric heathen death/doom from blood-soaked soil. The self-titled 2025 debut features three extended compositions in the vein of early Tiamat, Anathema, and Paradise Lost, released on a limited run of thirty hand-numbered cassettes.
Luleå-based death metal act active since 2016, 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.
French progressive death metal band from Grenoble, formed in 2015. They deliver intricate progressive death metal from the Alpine city of southeastern France.
Marghera (Venice)-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2017, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
German death/thrash metal band from Stuttgart, formed in 2019. They combine death metal's guttural intensity with thrash metal's relentless speed and precision.
London-based death metal and grindcore band active since 2012, creating what they call serial killing snuff grind. Their prolific discography from Suffocation through Lessons in Murder and 2025's Gallery of Monsters delivers graphically extreme sonic brutality steeped in horror and true crime themes.
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