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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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Melodic death metal band from Ahtari, Finland, active since 2010. They craft cold, melodic death metal from the rural Finnish heartland.
Death metal project from Zagreb, formed in 2021. Cryopathic Thanatology explores morbid themes through clinical, pathology-informed brutality.
Progressive death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2010. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity from the French capital.
Death-thrash act from Karlshamn in Blekinge, formed in 2017. Cryoshock delivers sharp, aggressive extreme metal from Sweden's southeastern coast.
Industrial death metal band from France, emerging in 2025. They channel mechanized aggression through industrial death metal.
Death-thrash band from Palermo, Sicily, active since 2011. Cryphtex delivers aggressive extreme metal from the heart of the Mediterranean.
Death metal band from Blackpool, England, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing death metal from the Lancashire coast.
Progressive death-doom band from Gomel, Belarus, formed in 2008. Their 2024 debut album Stargazer, praised by Metal Hammer UK and No Clean Singing as vast and astonishingly heavy, was completed posthumously from drafts left by founding songwriter Pavel.
Death-doom act from Ivano-Frankivsk in the Carpathian foothills of western Ukraine, active since 2014. Crypt of Silence merges crushing death metal with doom pacing from the Prykarpattia region.
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