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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)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
05/13 @ The Rust Belt, East Moline
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Groove/death metal band from Kassel in Hesse, active since 2009 and delivering heavy, rhythmically driven compositions for over fifteen years. Their Japanese-named project pairs groove metal's crushing weight with death metal's aggression.
Slam/brutal death metal and grindcore band from Vantaa, active since 2012 and delivering the most extreme, deliberately offensive sonic violence in the Finnish underground. Their provocative name matches their commitment to pushing boundaries of heaviness.
Death metal band from Vigo in Galicia, active since 2015 and delivering brutal extremity from Spain's northwestern Atlantic coast. Their Spanish name meaning "cradle of hate" captures the seething aggression at the core of their sound.
Thrash/groove/death metal band from Lempaala near Tampere, formed in 2025 with a Finnish name meaning "hand of death." Their triple-genre approach delivers lethal heaviness from the Pirkanmaa region.
Death/doom and gothic metal band from Kuopio, active since 2014 with a Finnish name meaning "valley of death." Their sound merges crushing death-doom weight with gothic metal's dark elegance from the eastern Finnish lakeland.
Rising from Alblasserdam's metal underground, this Dutch act forges Death Metal and Melodic Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Melodic death metal band from the rural Odsherred area of Denmark, formed in 2021 and named after the immortal warrior from Highlander. Their sound channels Scandinavian melodeath traditions with a distinctly Danish character.
Black/death metal band from Katowice in Upper Silesia, active since 2009 and merging both genres' ferocity. Their Polish name referencing burial mounds channels the ancient, sepulchral darkness of Slavic death culture.
Melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Helsinki, active since 2012 and blending three aggressive styles across over a decade. Their Finnish name meaning "misery" or "wretchedness" captures the anguish underlying their melodic extremity.
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