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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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Black-death metal band from Porvoo, Finland, formed in 2023. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the historic Borga region.
Death metal and grindcore band from Ruse, Bulgaria, formed in 2021. They deliver a putrid cocktail of grinding death metal from the banks of the Danube, embracing the genre's most extreme and visceral elements.
Death metal band from Uusikaupunki, Finland, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing death metal from the Finnish Satakunta coast.
Brutal death-grind act from Rome, formed in 2019. Coprophiliac delivers visceral, unrelenting extremity rooted in goregrind traditions.
Bulgarian death metal unit from Sofia, active since 2007. Their catalog spans releases like Dirty Exterminating Arrogant Turbo Holocaust and 35 Minutes Of Skull-Smash-Terror-Metal, channeling an aggressive, uncompromising strain of death metal with tongue-in-cheek irreverence.
Death metal band from Athens, Greece, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh, putrid death metal to the Greek underground.
Death metal band from Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains, Germany, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Cor are veterans of the Saxon-Anhalt death metal underground.
Progressive black-death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. They blend progressive complexity with extreme metal darkness from the French capital.
Death metal band from Esbjerg, Denmark, formed in 2019. They channel death metal aggression from Denmark's west coast port city.
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