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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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Grindcore, death metal, and crust punk outfit from Oldenburg in northern Germany, delivering chaotic blasts of genre-blending extremity since 2020. Their darkly humorous name sets the tone for an approach that refuses to take itself too seriously while remaining sonically devastating.
Viennese blackened death metal project featuring vocalist Prab, guitarist Bernth, and drummer Krimh, delivering theatrical and intensely aggressive metal. Their 2019 debut "Apocrypha" explores themes of identity, performance, and psychological torment across five concentrated tracks.
A product of Portugal's atmospheric and doom-laden metal tradition, this Évora-based death metal, folk metal, and melodic death metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2022, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Death metal and metalcore band from Leeds, England active since 2017. They bring intense, modern extreme metal from Yorkshire's largest city.
Brutal death metal band from La Boutigniere, France formed in 2016. They deliver punishing, guttural brutality from rural western France.
Firmly rooted in death metal, this Swedish actfrom Piteå delivers HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition without compromise. They've been at it since 2019, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Emerging from Maresso di Missaglia (Lecco), this Italian act forges Death Metal and Thrash Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Caltanissetta, Italy — death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2020, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
When Ecatombe emerged in 2018 from Mori/Rovereto (Trento), they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal — all punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
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