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Featured Album
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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German black/death metal band from Hamm, formed in 2023. They forge infernal black/death metal from the Westphalian industrial region.
Spanish death metal band from Ponferrada in the El Bierzo region, formed in 2017. They deliver void-summoning death metal from the mountainous northwest.
Melodic doom/death metal project from Gmünd, Austria, formed in 2018. They meld the sorrowful melodies of doom metal with death metal's guttural intensity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2014. Their irreverent pop-culture name belies a serious commitment to extreme metal.
Death/doom metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2024. They fuse death metal's aggression with doom's overwhelming weight.
Melodic death metal outfit from Krasnodar, formed in 2014. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
Spanish thrash/death metal band from Valencia, formed in 2020. They channel broken-brain thrash-death aggression from the Mediterranean coast.
German melodic death/thrash metal band from Bad Kissingen, formed in 2019. They blend melodic death metal harmonies with thrash metal's speed from the Franconian spa town.
Technical death metal band from Cernay in Alsace, formed in 2017 by members of Tortured Soul and Perverted. Their self-titled debut blends brutal and technical death metal with black metal undercurrents across tracks like Modern Slavery and Educated By Fists.
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