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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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Experimental death metal act from the Netherlands, formed in 2017. Cryptae has gained recognition for their abrasive, avant-garde approach to death metal that pushes beyond conventional boundaries.
Death/doom metal band from Klagenfurt, Austria, formed in 2021, featuring Benjamin Helfer on guitar and vocals alongside Daniel Schober, Simon Matweber, and David Matweber. Their 2024 self-titled debut EP spans funeral doom, death metal, and sludge with a 'Stay Death' ethos.
Death metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing death metal from the industrial heart of the Ruhr.
Death-doom metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, active since 2013. They craft putrid, filthy death-doom that crawls through murky sonic depths.
Melodic black-death metal band from Rosslau in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2020. They weave melodic elements through a foundation of black and death metal.
Brutal death metal act from Dobryanka in the Perm region, formed in 2023. Cryptic Conversion delivers punishing brutality from the Ural foothills.
Death-thrash metal band from Velbert, Germany, formed in 2017. They merge death metal brutality with thrash metal precision from the Bergisches Land region.
Death metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing death metal from the Staffordshire Potteries.
Death metal act from Moscow, formed in 2022. Cryptic Dissolution channels dark, decomposing death metal from the Russian capital.
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