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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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Swedish melodic death metal/metalcore band from Stockholm, blending Scandinavian melodeath with hardcore intensity since 2011. Their approach channels the melodic traditions of Swedish death metal with modern metalcore dynamics.
Ukrainian melodic death metal band from Kropyvnytskyi, crafting harmonic precision since 2020. Their wandering name evokes the searching, journey-like character of their melodeath compositions.
Spanish melodic death metal/metalcore band from Plentzia, blending Scandinavian melodeath hooks with hardcore aggression since 2017. Their approach bridges melodic sophistication and breakneck heaviness.
Swiss death metal act from Zurich with a long history stretching back to 1999 and an extensive discography. Their catalog spans numerous full-lengths and EPs, delivering consistent death metal brutality over more than two decades.
Ukrainian blackened death metal band from Irpin, merging volcanic intensity with extreme metal since 2021. Their elemental name captures the molten, subterranean fury of their blackened death approach.
British death/thrash metal band from Brighton, formed in 2023 and named after a Lovecraftian character. Their sound merges death metal's brutality with thrash velocity, channeling cosmic horror through extreme metal.
Portuguese death/black metal band from Porto, merging death metal brutality with blackened atmosphere since 2020. Their epidemiological name channels the spreading, infectious character of their extreme metal.
Swedish band from Boras that evolved from melodic death/thrash metal origins in 2011 into metalcore territory. Their parasitic name captures the clinging, invasive character of their aggressive sound.
German melodic death metal band from Freising, delivering Scandinavian-influenced melodeath with harmonic precision since 2011. Their sound channels the genre's trademark dual-guitar melodies and aggressive rhythms.
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