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Featured Album
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 band from Alingsas, Sweden, formed in 2020, delivering old-school Swedish death metal from the Vastra Gotaland region. They carry the torch of the legendary Swedish death metal sound.
Death metal band from Transylvania, Romania, formed in 2020, delivering putrid death metal from the legendary region. They channel Transylvanian darkness through festering extremity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Brescia, Italy, formed in 2019, whose Italian name means 'putrefaction.' They deliver appropriately rotting death-grind from the Lombardy industrial heartland.
Slam and brutal death metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2025, delivering graphic surgical extremity from the Ural capital. They represent the newest wave of Russian slam death metal.
Brutal death metal and goregrind band from Perm, Russia, formed in 2016, dealing in rotting corpse-themed extremity from the Ural region. They bring nearly a decade of putrid violence.
Death metal band from Enschede, Netherlands, formed in 2019, delivering putrid, old-school death metal from the Overijssel region. Their name captures the decomposition theme central to their sound.
Death and doom metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, formed in 2024, delivering filthy, putrid death-doom from the Serbian capital. They bring freshly rotting extremity to Belgrade's metal community.
Death metal and grindcore band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2020, worshipping at the altar of putrefaction through grinding death metal. They bring rotting extremity to the Portuguese capital.
Brutal death metal band from Zaandam, Netherlands, formed in 2023, dealing in rotting, festering brutal death metal. They bring fresh decay to the North Holland extreme metal scene.
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