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Featured Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Tribute to Erik Lindmark (Deeds of Flesh) (2020)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Terrassa near Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2016. They blend melodic guitar harmonies with crushing deathcore breakdowns.
Melodic death metal band from Heinola, Finland, active since 2013. They craft melodic yet punishing death metal from the Finnish lake town.
Melodic death metal act from Płock, central Poland, active since 2013. Cranthorpe delivers hook-driven death metal from the Vistula River city.
Folk-infused melodic death metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, active since 2012. They weave folk elements and dark melodies through a black and death metal foundation.
Melodic death metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 2010. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Bavarian capital with over a decade of experience.
Rimini-based death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2018, unleashing grinding blastbeats and guttural brutality from Italy's Adriatic coast. Their punishing sonic assault draws from the tradition of extreme music's most visceral subgenres.
Crust-death metal band from Patras, Greece, emerging in 2025. They fuse crust punk fury with death metal aggression from the Peloponnese.
Death-sludge metal band from Poitiers, France, formed in 2015. They merge death metal aggression with crushing sludge weight.
Death-thrash band from Cheboksary and Novocheboksarsk in the Chuvash Republic, active since 2016. Crazer delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Volga region.
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