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Drag Me to Hell (2021)
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Black Star (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Since 2016, this Norwegian thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Kongsberg. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Athens-based technical death metal act active since 2017, weaving labyrinthine guitar work and shifting time signatures into their extreme metal framework. Their compositions demand both virtuosity and visceral impact, balancing cerebral complexity with gut-level heaviness.
German brutal death metal and goregrind band from Saxony, formed in 2020. They specialize in the most extreme end of death metal with goregrind's deliberately revolting sonic aesthetic.
French slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band from Bordeaux, formed in 2025. They specialize in the most extreme end of death metal from southwestern France.
Bristol death metal and grindcore band formed in 2025. Their debut God Rot Your Soul delivers nine tracks of technical death-grind with literary horror themes drawn from Poe and W.W. Jacobs alongside dystopian imagery.
Spanish doom/death/sludge metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2017. They merge three crushing subgenres into a massive, suffocating wall of sound.
Death/thrash outfit from Verona, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
French thrash/death metal band from Lille, formed in 2025. They bring blazing death-thrash to northern France.
Danish band from Copenhagen, active since 2000, whose sound spans melodic death, gothic, and doom metal with a gothic rock phase in between. Their genre-shifting journey reflects a restless creative evolution over two-and-a-half decades.
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