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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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Doom metal band with death metal influences from Świdnica, Poland, active since 2008. Their nature-themed name frames nearly two decades of ponderous doom from the Lower Silesian town.
Warsaw symphonic death metal act active since 2013, layering orchestral arrangements over death metal from Poland's capital. Over a decade they have developed an approach that balances grandiose symphonic ambition with the genre's requisite brutality.
Black/death metal band from Campobasso in Italy's Molise region, formed in 2020. Their militant name accompanies aggressive extreme metal from one of Italy's least-populated regions.
Italian technical death metal project active since 2017, pushing death metal's technical boundaries with precision and compositional ambition. Their cathedral-evoking name hints at the architectural grandeur they bring to their meticulously constructed compositions.
Limerick black/death metal act from Ireland's western seaboard, formed in 2023. Their emergence adds to a growing wave of extreme metal from Ireland's traditionally overlooked western cities.
Le Havre's Oreskah navigates the intersection of melodic death metal, brutal death metal, and metalcore with technical precision. Their songwriting balances aggressive breakdowns and blast beats with soaring melodic guitar leads and harmonized passages.
UK act Organic Brain Disorder grinds through death metal and grindcore with clinical brutality and surgical precision. Their short, explosive compositions channel the intensity of early Carcass and Napalm Death.
Black/death/industrial metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020. Their ambitious three-genre approach blends extreme metal's ferocity with industrial's mechanical textures.
Black/death metal band from Rivolta d'Adda in Italy's Cremona province, formed in 2023. Their provocative name accompanies aggressive extreme metal from the Lombardy countryside.
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