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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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Trading in pure metallic intensity, this death metal and thrash metal act from Pescara traffics in labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Since 2013, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
Thrash/death metal act from Denmark, freshly formed in 2025. Their villainous name drives a sound built on the aggressive crossover of thrash speed and death metal brutality.
Death metal act from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2023, delivering visceral, no-frills extremity. Their provocatively bestial name sets the tone for an uncompromising approach to Scandinavian death metal.
Death/sludge metal act from Haderslev in southern Denmark, merging guttural death metal with sludge's swampy heaviness since 2021. Their maximally infernal name leaves no doubt about the dark, crushing intensity of their sound.
Death/thrash metal band from Cornella de Llobregat near Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018. They bring fierce extreme metal from the Barcelona metropolitan area.
Black/death/doom metal project from Minsk, Belarus, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest subgenres since 2019. Their multi-faceted approach creates a dense, suffocating sound that draws from each genre's most oppressive qualities.
Doom/death metal act from Berlin, Germany, conjuring oppressive, supernatural heaviness since 2012. Their spectral name captures the haunting, otherworldly quality of their fusion of doom and death metal.
Death/thrash metal act from Madrid, Spain formed in 2019. They channel relentless aggression from the Spanish capital's extreme metal underground.
Melodic death metal act from Geneva, Switzerland, delivering dual-guitar harmonics and aggressive precision since 2012. Their approach brings Gothenburg-influenced melodic death metal to the shores of Lake Geneva.
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