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Featured Album
Drag Me to Hell (2021)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Black Star (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Death metal and grindcore band from Zamora, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel chaotic extremity from the Castilian plains.
Melodic death-thrash band from Örebro, active since 2012. Carnosus delivers aggressive, hook-driven extreme metal from central Sweden.
Death metal band from Maaseik, Belgium, active since 2017, whose sound evolved from straightforward death metal in their early work toward a more melodic death metal direction. They represent the extreme metal scene from Belgium's easternmost reaches near the Dutch border.
Death-thrash metal band from Frederikshavn in northern Jutland, Denmark, formed in 2020. They merge death metal aggression with thrash metal speed from Denmark's northernmost port city.
Death-groove-thrash metal band from Murcia, Spain, active since 2013. They blend heavy grooves with death-thrash aggression from the southeastern Mediterranean coast.
Melodic black-death metal band from Murcia, Spain, formed in 2014. They weave melodic elements through blackened death metal from southeastern Spain.
Death metal band from Karvina in the Silesian region of Czech Republic, formed in 2013. They channel dark aggression through a death metal lens shaped by the industrial landscape of their homeland.
Death-thrash band from Warsaw, active since 2016. Carrion Breed channels aggressive extreme metal from the Polish capital.
Progressive death metal act from Rzeszów in southeastern Poland, formed in 2017. Carrion Crow blends technical complexity with death metal from the Podkarpacie region.
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