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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 metal outfit from Drachten, formed in 2019. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Spanish death metal band from Valladolid, formed in 2012. They deliver ritualistic death metal from the Castilian heartland.
Death metal outfit from Nottingham, formed in 2021. 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 melodic death metal band from Papenburg in East Frisia, active since 2008. They bring nearly two decades of melodic death metal to the North Sea coast region.
Finnish brutal death/black metal band from Saarijärvi, formed in 2023. They deliver burial-mound-dwelling extreme metal from central Finland.
Emerging in 2021 from Swindon, 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.
German black/death metal and crust band from Nordhausen in Thuringia, formed in 2017. They fuse extreme metal with crust punk's raw energy from the southern Harz region.
Dutch technical death metal act active since 2021, weaving labyrinthine guitar work and shifting time signatures into their extreme metal framework. Their compositions demand both virtuosity and visceral impact, balancing cerebral complexity with gut-level heaviness.
Multi-faceted extreme act from Lausanne, Switzerland, evolving from sludge/southern metal to death/sludge metal with hardcore since 2013. Their stylistic evolution reflects a restless creative spirit.
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