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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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Melodic death and groove metal band from Revuca, Slovakia, formed in 2014, questioning human intelligence through over a decade of melodic aggression from the Gemer region. They bring philosophical metal.
Melodic doom and death metal band from Vyborg, Russia, active since 2001, named after psychedelic mushroom larvae. Over two decades they have crafted melodic, hallucinatory doom-death from the Finnish border region.
Thrash and death metal band from Timisoara, Romania, formed in 2024, diagnosing society through aggressive death-thrash from the Banat capital. They bring clinical intensity to the western Romanian metal scene.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2013, delivering over a decade of psychically deranged extremity from the northern capital. They bring mind-bending brutality to the Petersburg scene.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2014, combining three strands of extreme metal into a terrifying sonic assault. Their occult-tinged name matches the ritualistic intensity of their music.
Melodic death metal band from Rzeszow, Poland, formed in 2018, channeling disturbed visions through melodic yet aggressive death metal. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melody to the Subcarpathian region.
Death metal band from Ryazan, Russia, formed in 2015, cutting through the Russian death metal scene with a decade of blade-sharp precision. They bring sharp extremity from central Russia.
Kassel's Promethean Fire has been forging technical melodic death metal since 2022, their mythological name evoking the theft of divine knowledge. Their Hessian base breeds compositions that balance precision picking with the genre's signature harmonic sweep.
Death metal band from Denmark, formed in 2017, exploring themes of psychological transformation through crushing death metal. Their name suggests metamorphosis of the mind, matching the intense nature of their sound.
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