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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Brutal death metal band from Dijon, France, delivering punishing extremity from the Burgundian capital since 2018. Their sound embodies the genre's commitment to guttural vocals, blast beats, and relentless technical aggression.
Death and black metal band from the Netherlands, active since 2017. Their sound merges death metal's guttural extremity with black metal's atmospheric darkness in unholy sacramental fashion.
Unholy Slough is a sludge/death metal band from Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia's Far East, delivering what they describe as slow and primitive metal. Their discography includes the albums Greatness, Triumph, and Chthonic Ritual.
Unholy Triumphant is a black/death metal band from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, with a discography that includes Ego Sum Ignis, Circulus Vitiosus, and The Diabolic Confession. The band delivers extreme metal steeped in Latin-titled darkness from western Ukraine.
Death metal band from San Michele al Tagliamento near Venice, Italy, active since 2022. Their hunting-themed name and Venetian coastal origins lend a distinctive identity to their death metal assault.
Death metal band from Palma, Mallorca, active since 2010 with a name that incongruously blends mythical imagery with extreme metal brutality. Their Mediterranean island origins bring a unique identity to their death metal assault.
Munich death metal band making a name for themselves through stark, uncompromising extremity exploring the collapse of faith, identity, and meaning. Their expanding catalog from Ascend The Plank through Scourge to the latest EP From Flesh To Void shows continuous growth in both musical and lyrical scope.
Melodic death metal band from Varazdin, Croatia, emerging in 2024 with a sound rooted in the Scandinavian melodeath tradition. Their approach balances death metal's aggression with memorable melodic guitar work.
Death metal and grindcore band from Oborniki Slaskie in Lower Silesia, Poland, named after the infamous industrial disaster, active since 2014. Their toxic namesake matches the corrosive intensity of their death-grind assault.
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