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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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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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Finnish death metal and grindcore band from Tampere, formed in 2022. They deliver bashed-out death-grind from Finland's industrial heartland.
Helsingborg death metal act delivering crushing, no-frills Swedish death metal since 2014. Their sound mines the classic Stockholm and Gothenburg production aesthetics with a relentless, grinding intensity.
Austrian grindcore/death metal trio from Kirchberg an der Pielach featuring Engel Mayr on guitar and vocals, Jürgen Schallauer on bass, and Urge Kirchner on drums. Their releases "Scheiss auf dein Geld" and "Wer das Schlechte nicht ehrt" showcase German-language hardcore punk-infused grind and death metal.
Umeå death metal revivalists channeling the raw, buzzsaw-guitar sound of early Swedish death metal with punk urgency. Their output on Blood Harvest and Pulverised Records earned them a reputation as one of the finest acts in Sweden's old-school death metal revival.
London death metal and crust punk band formed in 2013, blending aggressive death metal riffing with punk-fueled rawness. Their releases including 10 Counts of Fuck Off deliver a sludge-tinged crossover of extreme metal and crust.
Death-grind act from Vicenza, formed in 2017. 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.
German death metal band from Bonn, formed in 2022. They wield old-school death metal brutality with a medieval edge befitting their namesake weapon.
BASTARÐUR is a death metal and crust punk band from Iceland, formed in 2018 by Sólstafir guitarist and vocalist Aðalbjörn Tryggvason alongside Birgir Jónsson. The project channels the raw energy of Entombed-style Swedish death metal filtered through crust punk and Motörhead-influenced heaviness, with lyrics more antagonistic than Tryggvason's primary work. Their debut album Satan's Loss of Son was released in October 2021 on Season of Mist, featuring guest vocal contributions from Marc Grewe and Alan Averill of Primordial.
Finnish death metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, formed in 2012. They deliver punishing death-grind from the Finnish capital.
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