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Eschatology of War (2021)
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Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Twilight of the Thunder God (2015)
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No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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Black-death-doom metal band from Hamina, Finland, formed in 2019. They blend black metal darkness with death-doom weight from the southeastern Finnish coast.
Death and gothic metal band from Nachrodt in the Sauerland region of Germany, formed in 2018. They blend the aggression of death metal with the dark atmospheres and melodic sensibility of gothic metal.
Death metal band from Kraków, active since 2016. Cemetery Whore channels morbid, graveyard-themed death metal from the former Polish royal capital.
Black-death metal band from Loimaa, Finland, emerging in 2025. They channel dark, sepulchral metal from the Finnish countryside.
Progressive extreme metal band from Jena, Germany, formed in 2021. They blend black metal, death metal, doom, and progressive elements into an ambitious, genre-defying sound.
Blackened death-thrash band from Gradisca d'Isonzo in Gorizia province, formed in 2019. Censura delivers a volatile mix of extreme subgenres from the Slovenian border region of Friuli.
Technical death-thrash metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2018. They blend technical precision and complex arrangements with the speed and ferocity of death-thrash.
Melodic death-thrash act from Katrineholm in Södermanland, formed in 2019. Centicore delivers aggressive, hook-driven extreme metal from central Sweden.
Death metal band from the Dalarna towns of Hedemora and Avesta, active since 1997. Centinex is one of Sweden's longest-running death metal acts with nearly three decades of unrelenting output.
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