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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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Thrash and death metal band from Nassjo, Sweden, formed in 2020, stacking corpses through aggressive death-thrash from the Smaland region. They bring violent intensity to the Swedish underground.
Brutal death metal and goregrind band from Zalau, Romania, formed in 2013, delivering medically themed extremity from the Salaj region. Over a decade of grotesque sonic violence from northwestern Romania.
Thrash and death metal band from Gennes-sur-Seiche, France, formed in 2016, whose name means 'pillory' in French. They deliver punishing extreme metal from the Brittany-adjacent Ille-et-Vilaine department.
From the Hunsrück town of Kastellaun, Pinch Black has been forging black-death metal hybrids since 2018. Their remote Rhineland-Palatinate setting, surrounded by forests and medieval castles, provides natural inspiration for their dark sonic explorations.
Brutal death metal and hardcore band from Perm, Russia, formed in 2025, combining brutal death metal heaviness with hardcore intensity. They represent the newest wave of extreme metal from the Ural region.
Funeral doom and death metal band from Smaland, Sweden, formed in 2015, whose crude name belies the crushing seriousness of their funeral doom. They bring glacial heaviness from the Swedish highlands.
Death metal, grindcore, and noise band from Selyatino, Russia, active since 2005, delivering two decades of filthy, noise-laden extreme metal from the Moscow Oblast. They are veterans of the Russian underground.
Thrash and death metal band from Upice, Czech Republic, formed in 2017, combining thrash metal velocity with death metal heaviness. They represent the crossover aggression of the Czech extreme metal underground.
Brutal death metal band from Slagelse, Denmark, formed in 2016, dealing in unrelenting brutality and sonic violence. They bring crushing Danish death metal to the European extreme metal circuit.
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