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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They channel a punishing, blast-beat-driven assault that merges grind intensity with guttural death metal extremity.
Melodic death metal band from Funchal, the capital of Madeira island in the Atlantic, active since 2012. Calamity Islet delivers island-forged extreme metal from Portugal's most remote outpost.
Black-death metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2021. They channel darkness through a fusion of black and death metal from the Alsatian capital.
Death-grind act from Stockholm, formed in 2023. Calcinado delivers scorching, blast-driven extremity from the Swedish capital.
Death metal band from Bulle in the Fribourg canton of Switzerland, formed in 2008. Their self-described chaotic and irreverent sound oscillates between dementia and savagery across releases like Discipline and Tormenting Attractions.
Extreme metal solo project originally from Northern Scotland, now based in Zurich, Switzerland. The 2024 album Nothing Should Exist explores existential themes through odd death metal and death-doom, incorporating poetry by Wilfred Owen alongside original lyrics.
Melodic death metal band from Hennef, Germany, active since 2006. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-style death metal with heavy metal power.
Death metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver aggressive, guttural death metal from the historic Franconian city.
Death metal and deathcore band from Duisburg, Germany, active since 2007. They combine the aggression of death metal with metalcore's breakdowns and melodic elements from the industrial Ruhr region.
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