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Featured Album
Viribus Unitis (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Under the Influence (2015)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Death metal and grindcore band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of grinding extremity, Ceremoth are veterans of the Finnish grind scene.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, formed in 2025. Cerera brings fresh extreme metal energy to the Ural region.
Pagan melodic death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2014. They blend pagan themes and folk elements with melodic death metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Melodic death metal band from Germany, formed in 2020. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-style death metal with crushing aggression.
Death metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2021. Their releases including 'Profane Chants Of The Forsaken' deliver straightforward, no-frills death metal from the Bulgarian capital.
Death-sludge metal band from Vannes in Brittany, France, formed in 2018. They merge death metal aggression with sludge weight from the Morbihan coast.
Death-thrash metal band from Meyzieu near Lyon, France, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from the Rhone Valley.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2015. They blend Mayan-themed melodic death metal with metalcore dynamics.
Melodic black-death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave melodic elements through blackened death metal from the Bavarian capital.
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