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Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
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With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Terraborn from London deliver melodic death metal exploring themes of earthly origin and emergence since 2017. Their compositions channel the act of being born from the earth itself through aggressive melodicism.
Melodic death/progressive metal band from Navapolatsk, Belarus, who released their discography under an ambitious chapter-by-chapter conceptual framework on Bandcamp. Their series of releases—from Chapitre I through Chapitre V: The Middle Earth—draws on literary and mythological reference points including Baudelaire and Tolkien, suggesting a band as interested in narrative and atmosphere as in technical execution. Their melodic death foundation is consistently laced with progressive architecture and a clear love of conceptual album-making.
Thallium is a melodic death metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, formed in 2015. They play melodic death metal with Scandinavian-influenced guitar harmonies.
Thamand is a melodic death/black metal band from Szeged, Hungary, formed in 2019. They weave together melodic death metal harmonies with black metal intensity and atmospheric depth.
The Ancient Dark is a melodic death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2022. They combine death metal aggression with melodic guitar harmonies and atmospheric depth.
The Aphotic Strain is a melodic death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2022. They combine the aggression of death metal with intricate melodic guitar work and atmospheric layering.
Founded in September 2013 in Krems an der Donau, The Art of Fading play modern melodic death metal and deathcore, combining driving riffs and heavy breakdowns with melodic passages. They released their debut EP "Principles" in October 2014 and have performed alongside Evergreen Terrace and I Declare War, building their name in the Central European extreme metal circuit.
The Article is a melodic death metal band from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2012. They deliver melodic death metal with harmonic guitar work from the Hessian capital.
The Bearded Ones is a melodic death metal band from Neuruppin, Germany, formed in 2015. They play melodic death metal with dynamic vocal contrasts.
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