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Featured Album
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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Heavy metal/NWOBHM band from Manchester, active since 2018. Their approach channels the classic British heavy metal tradition from northern England.
Shred and heavy metal project from the UK, active since 2014. Their approach delivers technically demanding guitar-driven heavy metal.
Heavy/groove metal band from Bridlington, England, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers rhythmically driven heavy and groove metal from the Yorkshire coast.
Rhûn is a progressive heavy/power metal band from Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2024. Named after the eastern lands from Tolkien's Middle-earth, the band blends progressive complexity with heavy and power metal grandeur.
Rictus Grin is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Savonlinna in eastern Finland, formed in 2017. The band delivers classic metal from the picturesque Saimaa lake district city known for its medieval castle.
Ridanzius is a heavy metal band from Arvika, Sweden, formed in 2021. Their debut EP 'Roots All Rotten' delivers groove and thrash-infused heavy metal described as 'the most absolute horror and groove' from the Värmland region.
Riddle is a heavy/thrash metal band from Jönköping, Sweden, active since 2011. The band has been delivering aggressive metal from the Småland region for over a decade, combining heavy and thrash metal elements.
Heavy metal band from Kragujevac, Serbia, active since 2013. Named after the Conan the Barbarian concept, their approach delivers classic heavy metal from central Serbia.
Epic heavy metal band from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, active since 2014. Their approach delivers grandiose, anthemic heavy metal from the Dynamo festival city.
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