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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Blackened death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019, combining solar mythological themes with the aggression of blackened death metal. They bring cosmic intensity to the Helsinki extreme metal scene.
Death metal and grindcore act from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2016. They deliver a relentless combination of grinding extremity and death metal heaviness rooted in the Bosnian underground.
Death metal band from Walcz, Poland, formed in 2016, delivering progressive-tinged death metal from the West Pomeranian region. They bring over a decade of heaviness to the Polish underground.
Death metal band from Pershotravensk, Ukraine, formed in 2020, delivering death metal from the small Dnipropetrovsk Oblast city. They bring extreme metal to unlikely locations.
Death and thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016, delivering explosive death-thrash from the Finnish capital. They combine the best elements of both genres into a volatile mix.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Breda, Netherlands, formed in 2018, delivering medically themed extremity from North Brabant. Their clinical name evokes the tissue necrosis that matches their punishing sound.
Operating out of Limassol since 2014, Project: Oblivion combines the melodic intricacy of Scandinavian melodeath with thrash metal's rhythmic drive. As one of Cyprus's few extreme metal exports, they represent the island's small but passionate underground scene.
Technical death metal band from Wloclawek, Poland, formed in 2015, crafting mathematically precise technical death metal. They bring cerebral extremity to the Kuyavian metal scene.
Death metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2013, whose visceral name matches the violent intensity of their death metal. They bring uncompromising brutality to Tampere's extreme metal community.
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