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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Melodic death metal band from Finland, formed in 2024. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal in the Finnish tradition.
Melodic death-thrash and groove metal band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2016. They blend melodic guitar work with thrash velocity and heavy grooves from the central Ruhr.
Melodic death metal solo artist from Hesse, Germany, active since 2016. He crafts melodic yet aggressive death metal with a focus on dynamic songwriting.
Melodic death metal band from Argos in the Peloponnese, Greece, formed in 2021. They craft melodic death metal from one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
Symphonic melodic death-power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2018. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian death metal with symphonic orchestration and power metal hooks.
Melodic death-thrash band from Sosnowiec in Upper Silesia, active since 2012. Chronix delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Dąbrowa Basin.
Melodic death metal act from Budapest, formed in 2022. Chronolit delivers hook-driven extreme metal with strong melodic sensibilities.
Gothenburg melodic death/groove metal act formed in 2013, channeling the city's legendary melodeath tradition through a groove-heavy lens. Their rhythmic approach adds modern heft to classic Swedish melodicism.
Melodic death metal project from the small town of Kungsor formed in 2020, weaving melodic sophistication through aggressive frameworks. Their approach carries the emotional range characteristic of Scandinavian melodeath.
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