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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Norwegian death metal band from Surnadal, active since 2007 and delivering nearly two decades of brutality. Their name, meaning 'corpse scent,' captures the putrid, decomposing essence of their death metal.
Danish death metal act from Copenhagen, delivering brutal extremity since 2016. Their sound channels the genre's relentless aggression through the lens of the Copenhagen underground.
Polish death/black metal band from Wroclaw, active since 2010 and named after a Slavic historical reference. Their sound merges death metal's brutality with black metal's atmospheric menace from Lower Silesia.
Dutch death metal/grindcore band from Rotterdam, delivering savage extremity since 2008. Their surgical name signals the precise, cutting aggression of their deathgrind assault.
Finnish slam/brutal death metal act from Salo, delivering punishing slams and crushing brutality. Their sound channels the genre's most visceral elements through relentless rhythmic heaviness.
Belgian death/thrash/groove metal band from Meeuwen/Bocholt, forging a triple-threat assault of styles since 2017. Their sound draws from the aggressive intersection of death metal intensity, thrash velocity, and groove-heavy breakdowns.
Finnish progressive death metal band from Jyvaskyla, crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2018. Their name reflects the transitional, threshold-crossing nature of their progressive approach to death metal.
Croatian death metal band formed in 2011, channeling the genre's relentless brutality. Their name signals the extreme, boundary-pushing character of their death metal approach.
Romanian melodic death metal/metalcore band from Bucharest, formed in 2017 and combining harmonic precision with hardcore aggression. Their approach blends Scandinavian-influenced melodeath with metalcore's dynamic intensity.
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