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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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French progressive melodic death metal band from Paris, formed in 2022 and blending technical sophistication with melodic hooks. Their approach layers progressive complexity over melodic death metal's harmonic foundation.
Hungarian progressive death metal band from Szeged, crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2008. Named after Stanislaw Lem, their approach brings science-fiction-inspired vision to progressive death metal.
Leng Tch'e is a Belgian grindcore band from Ghent, formed in 2001 and named after the Chinese execution method known as "death by a thousand cuts." The band coined the term "razorgrind" to describe their fusion of grindcore with death metal, stoner rock, and metalcore elements, releasing their debut Death by a Thousand Cuts in 2002 before signing to Relapse Records for a run of albums including Marasmus (2007) and Hypomanic. Their approach to extreme brevity and sonic violence places them among the more intellectually self-aware bands in the genre.
Finnish death metal/grindcore band from Turku, formed in 2023 and blending savage brevity with brutal heaviness. Their playful name belies the serious extremity of their deathgrind assault.
Swedish death metal band formed in 2022, channeling the rich tradition of Swedish death metal. Their understated, personal name contrasts with the brutal intensity of their sound.
German death/thrash metal project formed in 2025, delivering raw aggression through a volatile blend of death and thrash metal. Their approach channels the primal fury of both genres with uncompromising intensity.
Brutal death metal act from Ronse, Belgium, delivering unrelenting heaviness since 2019. Their sound channels the genre's signature low-tuned aggression and percussive intensity through a no-frills approach to extremity.
Finnish death metal/goregrind act from Helsinki, formed in 2024 and channeling visceral extremity. Their sound merges death metal's crushing heaviness with goregrind's graphic intensity.
Ukrainian death metal band from Pershotravensk, active since 2021. Named after a Slavic forest spirit, their approach channels folklore-rooted darkness through death metal's brutal framework.
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