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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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Thrash and death metal band from Schmelz, Germany, formed in 2019, combining the speed of thrash with the brutality of death metal. Their provocative name matches the intensity of their sonic assault.
Blackened death metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2022, whose name references the early Church Fathers of Christianity. They deliver blasphemous blackened death metal from the Eternal City.
Progressive and melodic doom and death metal band from Patreksfjordur, Iceland, formed in 2022, crafting ambitious compositions from one of the most remote towns in the Westfjords. Their isolated location infuses their music with a unique desolation.
Operating from the Essen-Bottrop corridor since 2011, Phobiatic brings surgical technical death metal precision to the Ruhr Valley's extreme scene. Their dual-city base in Germany's industrial core fuels a mechanistic approach to the genre's most demanding configurations.
Death metal and grindcore band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2022, whose name simply means 'skin' in French. They deliver raw, stripped-down extremity from the Pink City.
Melodic death and industrial metal band from Hilden, Germany, formed in 2014, fusing the emotional melodies of Scandinavian death metal with cold industrial textures. Their hybrid approach creates a unique sonic identity within the German metal landscape.
Death and thrash metal band from Gottingen, Germany, formed in 2019, named after the vitamin deficiency disease. They deliver punishing extreme metal from the university city in Lower Saxony.
Sankt Wendel's Phosphorus fuses black metal's raw intensity with post-metal's expansive dynamics since 2019. Their Saarland setting — Germany's smallest state by population — breeds a creative isolation that feeds their atmospheric, boundary-pushing sound.
Death metal and grindcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2015, delivering relentless blasts of extreme metal from the French capital. They are part of Paris's active and varied grindcore community.
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