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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 and metalcore band from Soncino, Italy, formed in 2018, whose Latin name means 'dust and shadow.' They blend death metal heaviness with metalcore impact from the Lombardy countryside.
Wolfsburg's Peacemaker channels classic heavy metal and hard rock with the same no-nonsense efficiency as the Volkswagen city that spawned them. Their blue-collar approach to riff-driven metal has been a fixture of the Lower Saxon scene since 2015.
Belgian grindcore veterans from Eupen who emerged in 1997 from the ashes of Rising Nation, recording their debut Frankenstein in 2000. With six studio albums and multiple lineup changes across nearly three decades, they remain a persistent force in European grindcore.
Black and death metal band with hardcore influences from Paris, France, formed in 2017, combining extreme metal ferocity with hardcore intensity. They bring a confrontational crossover approach to the Parisian underground.
Deathcore and brutal death metal band from Kadiivka, Ukraine, formed in 2016, delivering nearly a decade of unfiltered extremity from the Luhansk Oblast. They bring raw brutality from eastern Ukraine.
Melodic death metal band from Tavelsjo, Sweden, formed in 2017, crafting purgatorial melodic death metal from the Vasterbotten wilderness. They bring redemptive aggression from northern Sweden.
Death and doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024, evoking visions of the afterlife through crushing death-doom. They blend the weight of doom with death metal's aggression.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Portugal, formed in 2026, whose Portuguese name means 'bestial purgatory.' They represent the absolute newest wave of Portuguese extreme metal.
Melodic death, thrash metal, and metalcore band from Tiverton, England, formed in 2013, blending multiple aggressive styles into a cohesive attack from rural Devon. They bring versatile metallic fury to the West Country.
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