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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Melodic death metal act from Italy, formed in 2015. Caos delivers hook-driven extreme metal with melodic sensibility.
Melodic death metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, active since 2013. They craft melodic yet intense death metal from the Finnish lake district.
Melodic death metal and groove metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2009. They blend Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with heavy grooves and aggressive dynamics.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Tilleda, Germany, formed in 2018. They blend the melodic guitar harmonies of Scandinavian death metal with modern metalcore dynamics.
German melodic death metal act active since 1988. As one of the country's earliest death metal bands, Carcades helped pioneer the genre in Germany over three and a half decades ago.
Pioneering death metal and grindcore band from Liverpool, England, formed in 1985. Carcass helped define both goregrind and melodic death metal, influencing countless extreme metal acts with their genre-shaping discography from Reek of Putrefaction through Surgical Steel.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Malmö, formed in 2018. Carchosa blends Scandinavian melodeath with hardcore intensity from Sweden's third-largest city.
Progressive melodic death metal project from Catanzaro, Calabria, formed in 2024. Cardaemort brings technical ambition to southern Italy's extreme metal scene.
Progressive melodic death metal act from Smolensk, western Russia, active since 2012. Cardinal Points blends technical ambition with melodic death metal from the historic border city.
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