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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
De Doorn (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
05/13 @ The Rust Belt, East Moline
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Rooted in Saint Petersburg's underground, this melodic death metal/metalcore project delivers dark compositions with conviction since 2014. Heavy, downtuned riffing and relentless percussion drive their compositions.
Death metal band from Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, active since 2006. Named after the Norse realm of the dead, they deliver punishing death metal from the German-Polish border.
Spawned in Tarnów's underground, this brutal deathcore outfit channels polish ferocity since 2016. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Melodic death metal outfit from Nantes in western France, active since 2022. Their cascading name matches compositions blending Scandinavian melodic death traditions with the energy of the Loire-Atlantique scene.
Melodic death metal band from Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain, active since 2014. Their cosmic-themed sound delivers sweeping melodic death metal from the Madrid metropolitan area.
Heljarmadr is a experimental melodic black/death metal band from Stockholm (early); International (later), Sweden, formed in 2020. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Emerging from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges's underground, this black/death metal act has been forging vicious sonic fury since 2016. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Black metal project from Mulhouse in Alsace near the Swiss and German borders, active since 2021. Their maleficent name channels dark sorcery into black metal informed by three converging European traditions.
Blistering black/death/thrash metal emanating from Sopot, active since 2021 within Poland's metal scene. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
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