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Featured Album
Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Versus the World (2015)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
05/12 @ The Rave - Eagles Club, Milwaukee
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Death-groove-thrash metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2016. They blend heavy grooves with death-thrash aggression from France's second city.
Death metal act from Vils, Austria, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing, heavy death metal rooted in the European tradition, bringing uncompromising aggression from the rural Tyrolean underground.
Death metal band from Innsbruck, Austria, active since 2013. Operating from the heart of the Alps, they channel raw death metal intensity with a focus on heaviness and extremity.
Melodic death-thrash act from Södertälje near Stockholm, active since 2014. Chaosys delivers aggressive, hook-driven extreme metal.
Melodic death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2013. They craft melodic yet chaotic death metal from the Finnish capital.
Death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2019. They channel old-school death metal darkness and ferocity from the Danish capital.
Symphonic blackened death metal act from Birkirkara, Malta, formed in 2017. Chaotic Remains delivers orchestral extremity from the densely populated heart of the Maltese islands.
Blackened death metal act from Wicklow, Ireland, formed in 2014. Chaotorynth explores labyrinthine extremity from the scenic Irish east coast.
Progressive death metal band from Cologne, Germany. Their 2024 album Echoes Of Light pushes beyond genre boundaries with stunning guitar work and contrasting moods, drawing comparisons to Blue Oyster Cult alongside their death metal roots.
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