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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Death metal project from Italy, formed in 2019. Continuum of Xul explores occult and cosmic horror themes through crushing death metal.
Brutal death metal act from Leiden, South Holland, formed in 2018. Contorted Mind delivers punishing, technically-inclined death metal from the Dutch university city.
Death and groove metal act from Piatra Neamt formed in 2018, blending crushing heaviness with rhythmic power from the eastern Carpathian foothills. Their dual approach draws from both extreme and modern metal traditions.
Death metal act from Lviv, active since 2015. Contrabanda delivers crushing death metal from western Ukraine's cultural capital.
Melodic death-groove metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2021. They blend melodic guitar work with heavy grooves and death metal aggression.
Melodic death metal band from Frankfurt, Germany, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, Contrast are veterans of the Rhine-Main melodic death metal scene.
Experimental grindcore and death metal act from Most, Czech Republic, active since 1995. Across seven releases from Necrostories through 2020's Mamun, Contrastic blend forward-thinking grind with melodies, electronica, and jazz influences for a uniquely catchy and chaotic sound.
Death-thrash act from Wrocław, formed in 2020. Contregator delivers aggressive extreme metal from the capital of Lower Silesia.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Asendorf, Germany, formed in 2014. They blend melodic guitar work with crushing deathcore breakdowns and death metal aggression.
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