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Strychnine.213 (Bonus Track Edition) (2023)
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Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Le Havre's Oreskah navigates the intersection of melodic death metal, brutal death metal, and metalcore with technical precision. Their songwriting balances aggressive breakdowns and blast beats with soaring melodic guitar leads and harmonized passages.
UK act Organic Brain Disorder grinds through death metal and grindcore with clinical brutality and surgical precision. Their short, explosive compositions channel the intensity of early Carcass and Napalm Death.
Black/death/industrial metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020. Their ambitious three-genre approach blends extreme metal's ferocity with industrial's mechanical textures.
Black/death metal band from Rivolta d'Adda in Italy's Cremona province, formed in 2023. Their provocative name accompanies aggressive extreme metal from the Lombardy countryside.
Krasnoyarsk Krai deathcore act from central Siberia, active since 2020. Their provocatively morbid name and punishing breakdowns bring deathcore's controlled violence to one of Russia's most geographically vast regions.
Decin-based act that launched in 2019 as a deathcore/djent project before pivoting toward technical death metal. Their genre evolution traces a path from breakdown-centric heaviness toward more compositionally demanding territory.
Chemnitz death/thrash metal act merging two of extreme metal's foundational styles since 2011. Over a decade in Saxony's third-largest city, they have built a steady body of work rooted in speed and aggression.
Knurow melodic death metal act from the Upper Silesian industrial heartland, hailing from a coal-mining town near Gliwice. Their Scandinavian-influenced melodeath brings an unexpected elegance to working-class Silesian origins.
Treviso death metal act from the Veneto region, active since 2020. Operating from a city in Prosecco country northeast of Venice, they bring straightforward death metal aggression to an area better known for its wine than its extreme music.
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