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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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Brutal death metal band from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, formed in 2013, bringing crushing death metal from the Canary Islands. They prove that extreme metal thrives even in the subtropical Atlantic.
Death metal and grindcore band from Tewkesbury, England, who later evolved into doom and death metal territory. Their stylistic journey from grinding extremity to crushing doom reflects a deepening heaviness over their career.
Death metal band from Anglet and Biarritz, France, formed in 2018, bringing devastating death metal from the Basque coast of France. They deliver punishing extremity from the surfing capital of Europe.
Death metal band from Sosnowiec, Poland, formed in 2024, whose name references the autopsy room. They bring freshly dissected death metal to the Silesian underground.
Death metal band from Olawa, Poland, formed in 2010, sharing their dissection-themed name with other anatomically inclined metal acts. Over fifteen years they have delivered methodical death metal from Lower Silesia.
Barcelona's Pycaya has been delivering groove metal's mid-tempo crunch since 2015, channeling rhythmic heaviness through a Catalan lens. Their Mediterranean base adds warmth and swing to their head-nodding, riff-driven approach.
Death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2013, whose Greek-derived name relates to prostration or worship. They deliver devoted death metal extremity from one of Yorkshire's most active metal cities.
Death metal band from Simferopol, Ukraine, formed in 2020, named after the neurological condition of face blindness. They deliver clinically precise death metal from the Crimean capital.
Death metal and deathcore band from London, England, formed in 2013, delivering mechanically precise extreme metal from the British capital. They blend death metal brutality with deathcore's modern heaviness.
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