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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 act from Aarhus, Denmark, delivering punishing extremity since 2005. Their two-decade career reflects deep commitment to the death metal craft from Denmark's second-largest city.
Deathcore and death metal act from Basel, Switzerland, erupting with crushing breakdowns and aggressive extremity since 2011. Their name captures the sudden, violent energy that defines their blend of deathcore and death metal.
When Erupted emerged in 2013 from Växjö, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal — all percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Death metal and grindcore band from Harjavalta, Finland active since 2009. They blast grinding extremity from the Satakunta region of western Finland.
Active in Gomunice since 2016, this Polish act forges Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Practitioners of death metal and melodic death metal, this Russian outfit from Samara has been refining their craft since 2016. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with dogged persistence.
Death/thrash metal band from Bayonne in the French Basque Country, formed in 2022. They deliver fierce extreme metal from the southwestern frontier.
A product of a growing underground metal community, this Mosta-based brutal death metal and death metal act channels percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Active since 2024, low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Pushing the boundaries of brutal death metal and death metal, this Slovak outfit from Košice has been refining their craft since 1996. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with stubborn authenticity.
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