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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
A Feast On Sorrow - Signed (2023)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
Black Star (2025)
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Doom/death metal band from Gomel, Belarus, merging oppressive slowness with guttural death metal ferocity since 2013. Their sound reflects the bleak, heavy atmosphere that defines the doom/death crossover tradition.
Grindcore and crust band from Segovia, Spain active for over 20 years, featuring dual vocalists and a three-piece instrumental lineup. Their politically charged output addresses colonialism, imperialism, and environmental destruction across splits and EPs.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal and sludge metal with a focus on tar-thick riffs and feedback-drenched nihilism. Formed in 2013, based in Bologna, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Russian black metal and death metal act, active since 2025 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Glasgow's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal unit is among them — wielding HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this death metal act from Umeå traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 2014, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
When Envig emerged in 2015 from Lidköping, 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.
In existence since 2007, this Bollnäs Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
In existence since 2010, this Omsk Brutal Death Metal and Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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