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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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Technical brutal death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2012. Their technically demanding approach pushes death metal to its most complex and punishing extremes.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Neuruppin, Germany, active since 2014. Their dynamic sound bridges Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with modern metalcore from Brandenburg.
Death metal and grindcore act from Roanne in the Loire department, active since 2018. Their beer-themed name adds levity to a sound that grinds through brutal extremity from central France.
Melodic death metal band from Neumunster, Germany, active since 2011. Their melodic approach channels the Gothenburg tradition with refined guitar harmonies from Schleswig-Holstein.
Human Decay is a death metal band from Noisy-Le-Roi, France, active since 2014 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Human Decrepity is a slam/brutal death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2010. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Human Desolation is a melodic death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2015 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Death metal band from Augsburg, Germany, active since 2003. Over two decades of unrelenting death metal make them one of the longest-running extreme acts in the Bavarian Swabian scene.
Punishing death/thrash metal emanating from Bari, active since 2013 within Italy's metal scene. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
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