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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
PENTAGRAM - Show 'Em How REMASTERED REISSUE (2025)
05/28 @ The Sanctuary Detroit, Hamtramck
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Black, death, and thrash metal band from Reading, England active since 2014. They unleash a triple-headed extreme metal assault from Berkshire.
Practitioners of black metal, death metal, and doom metal, this Hungarian outfit from Nagyatád has been refining their craft since 2014. Their sound hinges on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities, delivered with dogged persistence.
Death metal and melodic death metal band from Kotka, Finland active since 2013. They deliver powerful melodic death metal from the southeastern Finnish coast.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this black metal and death metal act from Poland traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2009, they've built a catalog that reflects Poland's relentlessly productive underground.
Death metal act from Berlin, Germany, delivering visceral, organ-themed extremity since 2020. Their darkly humorous name reflects the morbid sensibility that permeates their Berlin underground death metal.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this death metal and thrash metal act from Pescara traffics in labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Since 2013, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
Thrash/death metal act from Denmark, freshly formed in 2025. Their villainous name drives a sound built on the aggressive crossover of thrash speed and death metal brutality.
Death metal act from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2023, delivering visceral, no-frills extremity. Their provocatively bestial name sets the tone for an uncompromising approach to Scandinavian death metal.
Death/sludge metal act from Haderslev in southern Denmark, merging guttural death metal with sludge's swampy heaviness since 2021. Their maximally infernal name leaves no doubt about the dark, crushing intensity of their sound.
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