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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 metal band from Risca in South Wales, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing death metal from the Welsh valleys.
Blackened death metal act from Lisbon, formed in 2024. Chapel of Samhain channels Celtic pagan themes through extreme metal.
Death-groove metal band from Coventry, England, formed in 2020. They blend death metal aggression with heavy grooves from the city that gave birth to Cathedral.
Death metal band from Valence in the Drome, France, formed in 2022. They deliver crushing death metal from the Rhone Valley.
Progressive death metal act from Wrocław, formed in 2019. Charnel blends technical complexity with death metal weight from the capital of Lower Silesia.
Death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022. They channel charnel darkness through death metal from the Finnish capital.
Death metal act from Stockholm and Karlstad, formed in 2024. Charnel Stench delivers morbid, old-school death metal from two Swedish cities.
Death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning charnel house in French, Charnier deliver putrid death metal from the Mediterranean port city.
Death metal act from the Tuscan city of Siena, active since 2013. Charun — named after the Etruscan demon of the underworld — draws on ancient mythology for their crushing sound.
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