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Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Roman grindcore provocateurs formed in 2007, injecting irreverent humor and pop-culture satire into their blasting assault. Their tongue-in-cheek approach and food-obsessed themes make them one of Italy's most distinctive extreme metal acts.
Progressive death metal outfit from Voronezh, formed in 2015. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Grindcore act from Arnhem, formed in 2023. Their music exists in a state of perpetual detonation, packing blast beats and screamed vocals into compositions that rarely exceed the two-minute mark.
Bristol-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2013, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Borås-based doom metal act active since 2020, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Death metal and grindcore band from Zofingen, Switzerland, active since 2017. They pair death metal's heaviness with grindcore's blasting intensity.
Piedmont-based black metal/noise project active since 2024, submerging their compositions in walls of static and feedback that blur the line between music and pure sonic assault. Their confrontational approach weaponizes dissonance and distortion.
Bristol-based deathcore act active since 2004, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Manchester-based grindcore/powerviolence outfit active since 2025, dealing in short, violent compositions that careen between blasting speed and crushing slow sections. Their confrontational approach strips heavy music to its most aggressive core.
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