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Infinite Terror (2022)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Apocalypse (2023)
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Black/death Viking metal band spread across Helmond, Eindhoven, and Tilburg in the Netherlands, formed in 2021. Their sound merges Viking metal's epic themes with black and death metal aggression from the North Brabant region.
Death metal and melodic death metal act from London, England launched in 2024. They bring fresh melodic extremity to the capital's metal scene.
Deathcore act from the Rohrbach/Sankt Ingbert area of Germany's Saarland region, formed in 2023, delivering breakdown-heavy aggression. Their Cheech and Chong-referencing name adds dark humor to their punishing deathcore sound.
Black metal, death metal, and experimental act from London, England active since 2011. They push genre boundaries with avant-garde extremity from the British capital.
Death/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, delivering relentless aggression with an urgency reflected in their name since 2017. Their crossover of death and thrash metal channels the raw energy of the German capital's underground scene.
Death/thrash metal act from Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring raw, punky extreme metal energy to the Finnish underground.
Death metal band from London, England active since 2012. They deliver brutal death metal from the heart of the British capital.
Death metal and metalcore hybrid from Vollersode, Germany, blending guttural extremity with hardcore-influenced breakdowns since 2014. Their provocatively named approach fuses the aggression of both genres into a single, punishing assault.
Kraków's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal and groove metal unit is among them — wielding technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
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