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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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Death/thrash metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, active since 2015. They deliver scorching extreme metal from above the 65th parallel.
Black, death, doom, and gothic metal band from Potenza, Italy active since 2007. They deliver a rich, multi-genre extreme metal sound from the Basilicata region.
Vladimir, Russia — death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2014, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Death metal band from Nikaia, Greece active since 2011. They deliver old-school death metal brutality from the Athens metropolitan area.
Death/doom/black metal act from Rivas-Vaciamadrid near Madrid, Spain, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest threads since 2007. Their skin-condition name captures the raw, uncomfortable intensity of their genre-crossing extremity.
Progressive death metal act from Brno, Czech Republic, combining death metal's aggression with progressive structures and melodic complexity since 2009. Named after a race from Tolkien's Silmarillion, their sound carries a mythical weight within its technical framework.
Active in Piacenza since 2014, this Italian act forges Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Melodic death metal act from Berlin, Germany, crafting harmonically rich, aggressive compositions since 2018. Their approach brings Gothenburg-influenced dual-guitar melodies to the German capital's diverse metal underground.
Death metal and progressive metal band from Lille/Arras, France active since 2013. They deliver technically ambitious death metal from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.
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