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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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Drawing from Helsinki's metal heritage, this melodic death/thrash metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2020. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
Hateism is a progressive death metal band from Chita, Russia, active since 2012 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Paderborn, Germany, active since 1996. With nearly three decades of extreme music under their belt, they are among the most enduring purveyors of brutality in the German underground.
Death metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2021. Their savage approach to the genre brings fresh brutality to the Saxon death metal underground.
Death metal band from Porrentruy, Switzerland, formed in 2025. A fresh addition to the Swiss extreme metal underground, they deliver crushing death metal from the Jura region.
From Mikkeli in Finland, this death metal act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2023. Heavy, downtuned riffing and relentless percussion drive their compositions.
Melodic Death/Thrash Metal/Metalcore outfit rooted in Norrköping / Ljungsbro, channeling raw underground intensity since 2006. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Hateseeder is a brutal death metal band from Bari, Italy, formed in 2019. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Melodic death metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2015. Their polished sound channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Spanish capital.
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