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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Trial By Fire (2023)
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Death metal band from Tampere, Finland formed in 2021. They bring devastating death metal from Finland's industrial heartland.
Death metal and melodic death metal band from Angers, France formed in 2017. They deliver aggressive yet melodically rich death metal from the Maine-et-Loire region.
Melodic death/doom metal act from Hoeilaart near Brussels, blending sorrowful melodies with crushing heaviness since 2015. Their fusion of melodic death metal's harmonic richness with doom's oppressive weight creates a distinctly emotive brand of extreme metal.
Death metal outfit from the remote mountain town of Murau in Austria's Styria region, delivering punishing extremity since 2017. Their brand of death metal carries the cold, isolated atmosphere of the Austrian Alps.
Death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece active since 2011. They bring brutal death metal from northern Greece.
Black/death metal band from Barcelona, Spain formed in 1996, boasting a deep catalog of ten releases including Goatworshipping Metal and Psalms of Plagues and Cult of Death. Their extensive discography spans nearly three decades of unrelenting extreme metal darkness.
Brutal death metal band from Arelaune-en-Seine in Normandy, France, active since 2001. With over two decades of history, they are veterans of the French brutal death metal scene.
When Ereskigal emerged in 2017 from London, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and death metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Black/death/thrash metal act from Frankfurt (Oder) on the German-Polish border, formed in 2024. Named after an elf lord from Tolkien's works, their Tolkien-inspired moniker belies a savage fusion of three extreme metal subgenres.
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