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Featured Album
Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Versus the World (Bonus Edition) (2015)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Melodic death metal band from Kokkola, Finland, formed in 2020. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Death metal act from Moscow, formed in 2019. Chatalhüyük — named after the ancient Anatolian settlement — explores archaeological themes through death metal.
Genre-crossing extreme metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2016. Chaver blend black metal, crust punk, death metal, and groove metal into a fierce and unpredictable assault.
Black-death metal band from Badalona near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2011. They merge voodoo-tinged darkness with blackened death metal from the Catalan coast.
Death metal and grindcore band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver irreverent, chaotic extremity with a playful edge from the former West German capital.
Brutal death metal act from Penza in central Russia, formed in 2022. Chelicerae Growth Pathogen delivers pathology-themed brutality with a name referencing arachnid appendages.
Death-thrash outfit from Slavonski Brod, Croatia, formed in 2016. Chemical Exposure delivers caustic, high-speed riffing that channels the spirit of late-'80s thrash revivalism.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Bottrop, Germany, formed in 2017. They blend melodic guitar harmonies with crushing deathcore breakdowns from the northern Ruhr region.
Black-death metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2020. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the Scottish capital.
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