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The Unconfessed is an epic black/death metal band from Larissa, formed in 2025. Their music channels unspoken darkness through the dramatic scope of epic extreme metal from central Greece.
The Unrest from Southend-on-Sea deliver death metal and hardcore with the agitated, sleepless intensity their name demands since 2018. Their Essex seaside base adds restless coastal energy to their compositions.
Founded in 2012, The Uprising are a four-piece punk-infused thrash/death metal act from Romanshorn, Switzerland with a prolific DIY ethic centered on constant recording and touring across Europe. Their debut tape on Mustard Mustache Records and subsequent 7" on Bad Dog Records showcase raw, stripped-down aggression.
The Vision Ablaze from Copenhagen blend melodic death metal, groove metal, and metalcore into a fiery hybrid since 2011. Over a decade of activity, they have become one of the Danish capital's most dynamic heavy acts, balancing melodic sophistication with crushing aggression.
The Wake is a melodic death metal band from Karjaa, Finland, formed in 2020. They play melodic death metal from southwestern Finland.
The Walls Concave from Potsdam outside Berlin deliver a claustrophobic fusion of deathcore and grindcore, their name evoking the closing-in sensation of their crushing sound since 2011. Their compositions pair deathcore's breakdown-driven heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity from Brandenburg.
The Ward hail from Tiraspol in the breakaway region of Transnistria, delivering atmospheric and melodic death metal since 2014. Their geographic isolation adds an unusual dimension to music that balances melodic sophistication with death metal's intensity.
Geneva's The Warriors deliver a ferocious blend of death metal and grindcore, keeping songs short, brutal, and unrelenting. Formed in 2019, they represent the newer wave of Swiss extreme metal pushing into blast-beat-driven territory.
The Whole Truth from Nantes deliver death metal and grindcore with the complete, unvarnished honesty their judicial-oath name demands since 2013. Over a decade of truth-telling brutality from the Loire-Atlantique capital has produced compositions of unflinching extremity.
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