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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)
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Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 2020, based in Parma, the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
Symphonic black/death metal project from Finland, active since 2013 and layering orchestral grandeur over extreme metal foundations. Their name referencing the ancient Egyptian underworld adds a mythological dimension to their symphonic extremity.
Death metal band from London, active since 2012 and operating within the UK's vibrant extreme metal underground. Their sound delivers punishing death metal with the intensity and aggression expected from the genre's most committed practitioners.
Death metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2023 and bringing brutal, unrelenting aggression to the Rhineland-Palatinate metal scene. Their sound channels classic death metal ferocity through a contemporary production lens.
Laying down tracks since 1995, this Umeå Death Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Death metal band from Orleans in central France, active since 2012 and delivering over a decade of brutal compositions. Their Turkish-derived name adds a mysterious edge to their French death metal.
Portuguese band from Sintra that evolved from gothic metal origins in 2014 into a death metal-focused sound. Their stylistic evolution reflects a deepening commitment to extreme metal's most intense expressions.
Doom/death/black metal band from Lyon with remarkably early origins dating to 1968, making them one of the oldest extreme metal acts in France if not Europe. Their multi-genre approach merges three dark metal styles into a uniquely weighty sound.
Firmly rooted in death metal, this Polish actfrom Płock/Plońsk delivers technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality without compromise. They've been at it since 2014, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
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