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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Death-grind act from Modena, formed in 2024. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
Finnish death/thrash metal and crossover band from Helsinki, formed in 2015. They serve spoonful after spoonful of death-thrash crossover from the capital.
Death metal band from Shumen, Bulgaria, formed in 2021. They channel unrelenting death metal from northeastern Bulgaria.
Progressive death metal outfit from Astrakhan, formed in 2014. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Death/thrash metal band from Saint-Avold in the Moselle department of northeastern France, active since 2016. Their album Reasons to Go Insane pairs melodic sensibilities with aggressive thrash instrumentation and dark lyrical themes.
Since 2020, this Dutch thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Kaatsheuvel. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Brutal death metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2023. A young act delivering punishing, guttural extremity in the French brutal death metal underground.
Punishing brutal death metal from Radomsko, formed in 2021. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German death/thrash/doom metal band from Krölpa in Thuringia, formed in 2016. They blend three heavy genres into a savage, multifaceted assault.
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