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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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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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Riga progressive/death metal act active since 2020, blending technical ambition with death metal's visceral impact. Latvia's capital has a modest but quality-over-quantity extreme metal output, and this act exemplifies that standard.
Barnaul melodic doom/death metal act from the Altai region of Siberia, active since 2017. Located near the borders of Kazakhstan, China, and Mongolia, their melancholic doom-death carries the vast isolation of the Central Asian steppe.
Zaragoza black/death metal act active since 2014, fusing two of extreme metal's most hostile styles from the Aragonese capital. Over a decade of releases they have established themselves in the Spanish underground.
Cantabrian thrash/death metal act from the Campoo region, active since 2013. Their name -- Spanish for 'opposer' -- captures the confrontational attitude they bring to northern Spain's extreme metal landscape.
Death/thrash metal band with doom influences from Vantaa, Finland, active since 2014. Their triple-genre approach combines death metal's ferocity, thrash's velocity, and doom's crushing weight.
German technical death metal band from Dortmund, formed in 2023 and pushing death metal's technical boundaries. Their name signals the precision-focused, tyranny-opposing character of their tech-death approach.
Brutal death metal band from Santander, Spain, active since 2009. Over fifteen years they have established themselves in the Cantabrian extreme metal scene with relentless brutality.
Zadar progressive/melodic death metal act from Croatia's Dalmatian coast, formed in 2021. Their Adriatic setting provides a scenic contrast to the intricate, technically demanding progressive melodeath they produce.
Coventry's Opus Mortis merges black and death metal into a ferocious assault that draws equally from both traditions. Their compositions alternate between tremolo-driven black metal passages and death metal's guttural heaviness with seamless aggression.
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