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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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Death metal band from Brilon, Germany, active since 2010. Their gore-soaked approach to death metal channels brutal, unflinching heaviness from the wooded hills of the Sauerland region.
Emerging from Espoo's underground, this melodic death metal act has been forging grim sonic fury since 2016. Technical precision and brutal aggression merge in their approach to the genre.
Thrash/death metal band from Grevenbroich, Germany, active since 2013. Their punishing crossover of thrash and death metal delivers relentless aggression from the Rhineland industrial heartland.
Black/death metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2017. Their ferocious blend of black and death metal channels the extreme end of Baden-Wurttemberg's underground metal scene.
Hand of the Host is a death metal band from Birmingham, United Kingdom, active since 2026 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Death metal band from Molins de Rei, Spain, formed in 2021. Their uncompromising approach delivers crushing death metal from the Barcelona metropolitan area.
Hang the Traitor is a death/thrash metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2013. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Hanged Ghost is a doom/death metal band from Portugal, formed in 2023. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Hanger Abortion is a slam/brutal death metal/deathcore band from Montpellier, France, formed in 2019. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
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