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The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Death-thrash act from Chiaravalle near Ancona in the Marche region, active since 2013. Cruor — Latin for 'blood' — channels violent extreme metal from central Italy's Adriatic coast.
Melodic black-death metal band from Parainen, Finland, formed in 2019. They weave melancholic melodies through blackened death metal from the Finnish archipelago.
Death-thrash metal band from Amiens in Picardy, France, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing death-thrash from the Somme capital.
Death metal act from Stockholm, formed in 2018. Crushed Skull delivers blunt, devastating death metal from the Swedish capital.
Death metal band from Reading, England, formed in 2022. They deliver crushing death metal from the Thames Valley.
Death metal act from Ponte de Lima, the oldest town in Portugal, formed in 2023. Crustimate brings extreme metal to the historic Minho region.
Black-death metal band from Selb in Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2024. They channel darkness through a fusion of black and death metal from the Bavarian-Czech borderlands.
Death and thrash metal band from Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, formed in 2024. A newer force in the Belgian extreme metal underground, they combine the heaviness of death metal with the velocity of thrash.
Death metal act from Silesia, formed in 2023. Cry of the Nile — evoking Egyptian death metal traditions — brings Nile-inspired extremity to the Polish scene.
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