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ManiaCult (2021)
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With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Thrash and death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2019, bringing politically charged aggression to the Czech extreme metal scene. Their name alone signals an irreverent and confrontational approach to metal.
Death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2013, exacting the ultimate toll through over a decade of death metal from the Russian capital. They bring consistent brutality to Moscow's underground.
Black and death metal band from Swiebodzice, Poland, formed in 2020, delivering blackened death metal from the Lower Silesian foothills. Their sacred name contrasts with the unholy nature of their extreme metal.
Death and thrash metal band from Amsterdam, Netherlands, formed in 2012, delivering over a decade of aggressive death-thrash from the Dutch capital. They bring primal intensity to Amsterdam's diverse metal community.
Death metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2014, delivering precise, targeted death metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area. They are a consistent presence in the Finnish death metal underground.
Death metal band from Soria, Spain, formed in 2025, bringing raw, primal death metal to one of Spain's least populated provinces. They channel the isolation of their surroundings into unfiltered sonic aggression.
A 2025 Essen-based black-death metal project, Primitive Slaughter arrives with an approach as blunt and savage as their name suggests. Their Ruhr Valley origins add industrial-strength aggression to their atavistic assault.
Lleida's Purín brings metalcore aggression to the western Catalan heartland since 2017. Their agricultural-capital base and earthy name suggest a band rooted in the pragmatic, no-nonsense spirit of the Ponent region.
Death and doom metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2022, refracting death-doom through the prism of Ukrainian underground metal. They bring crushing, multifaceted heaviness from the capital.
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