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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Death, melodic death, metalcore, and progressive metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring a technically ambitious multi-genre approach to the central Finnish metal scene.
A product of the birthplace of heavy metal itself, this Brighton-based death metal and melodic death metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2025, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Blackened death metal act from Thuringia, Germany, forging a fusion of black and death metal's most aggressive elements since 2022. Their ecclesiastical name hints at a thematic engagement with religious and spiritual darkness.
Death/thrash metal band with groove influences from Breda, Netherlands active since 2012. Their sound fuses death metal's heaviness with thrash speed and groove metal's rhythmic weight from North Brabant.
Death/thrash metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, active since 2015. They deliver scorching extreme metal from above the 65th parallel.
Black, death, doom, and gothic metal band from Potenza, Italy active since 2007. They deliver a rich, multi-genre extreme metal sound from the Basilicata region.
Vladimir, Russia — death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2014, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Death metal band from Nikaia, Greece active since 2011. They deliver old-school death metal brutality from the Athens metropolitan area.
Death/doom/black metal act from Rivas-Vaciamadrid near Madrid, Spain, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest threads since 2007. Their skin-condition name captures the raw, uncomfortable intensity of their genre-crossing extremity.
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