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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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Death metal band from Bilbao, Spain, formed in 2021, named after the archaic medical term for tuberculosis. They deliver infectious, disease-themed death metal from the Basque Country.
Technical and progressive death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2014, crafting evolutionary sonic complexity through intricate compositions. Their scientific name reflects the intellectual depth of their progressive death metal.
Progressive death metal band from Schwelm, Germany, formed in 2020, painting vivid sonic pictures through technically demanding progressive death metal. Their name, Latin for painting, reflects their approach to crafting detailed musical compositions.
Albi's Pestiferum has been spreading black metal contagion from the medieval Occitan city since 2013. Their Tarn department setting — site of the infamous Albigensian Crusade — provides centuries of religious violence as thematic fuel.
Technical melodic death metal band originally from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2004, later relocating to Athens. Over two decades they have crafted technically demanding melodic death metal bridging Scandinavian and Hellenic traditions.
Death metal band from Poland, formed in 2023, whose Polish name means 'hellish bastard.' They deliver infernal death metal with characteristic Polish extremity.
Brutal death metal band spanning Hannover, Karlsruhe, Magdeburg, and Steinau, Germany, formed in 2007. Their geographically dispersed lineup delivers unified, crushing brutal death metal across the German underground.
Czech death grind band from Vyskov, active since 1998, making them one of the longest-running extreme metal acts in the Czech scene. Their prolific catalog includes releases like Planet of the Pigs and Pig Blood, delivering relentless grindcore and death metal ferocity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Tomsk, Russia, formed in 2021, delivering grotesque extremity from western Siberia. They bring crude sonic violence to the Tomsk underground.
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