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Featured Album
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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Italian atmospheric/technical death metal band from Brindisi in Puglia, formed in 2023 and blending ambiance with precision. Their approach merges atmospheric expansiveness with technical death metal's exacting complexity.
Polish grindcore/death/black metal/noise band from Zabrze, merging multiple extreme styles since 2015. Their vowel-stripped name reflects the abrasive, stripped-down character of their multi-genre noise assault.
Scottish thrash/death metal band from Dunfermline, merging thrash velocity with death metal brutality since 2015. Their lycanthropic name signals the savage, predatory character of their extreme metal.
Hungarian death metal band from Dunaujvaros, channeling the genre's brutal essence since 2019. Their lycanthropic name signals the predatory, transformative character of their death metal.
French brutal death metal band from Dole, delivering punishing extremity since 2008. Their nearly two decades of commitment to brutal death metal mark them as veterans of the French underground.
British symphonic death metal band from England, formed in 2021 and layering orchestral grandeur over death metal brutality. Their approach merges sweeping symphonic arrangements with aggressive extremity.
German symphonic black/death metal act from Karlsruhe, formed in 2020 and merging orchestral grandeur with extreme metal brutality. Their sound combines symphonic arrangements with the dual assault of black and death metal.
French thrash/death metal band from Nimes, merging thrash velocity with death metal brutality since 2020. Their sound channels the combined aggression of both genres from Provence.
British brutal death metal/grindcore band from Truro, formed in 2023 and delivering savage extremity from Cornwall. Their medical name signals the diseased, pathological character of their deathgrind assault.
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