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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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The Observants is a melodic death metal band from Perugia, Italy, formed in 2015. They blend death metal aggression with melodic guitar interplay and dynamic songwriting from Umbria.
The Old Garden Geranium is a melodic death metal band from Vignola near Modena, Italy, formed in 2011. They combine death metal heaviness with melodic intricacy and an unusually pastoral band name.
The Other Dimension is a brutal/melodic death metal band from Stolberg/Aachen, Germany, formed in 2021. They blend brutal death metal's savagery with melodic elements.
The Owl is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Athens, formed in 2018. Their music combines the melodic guitar harmonies of melodic death metal with the aggressive breakdowns of metalcore.
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The Pinetree Tapes is a melodic death metal project from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2025. They deliver melodic death metal from the German capital.
The Scourger is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They combine melodic death metal's harmonies with thrash's aggression.
The Shadeless Emperor is an epic/melodic death metal band from Larissa, active since 2013. Their regal name suits the grandiose scope of their melodic death metal, blending epic atmospheres with aggressive precision.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Tyrol, Austria, The Sky Is Ours were active from 2006 to 2011, operating as an independent act in the regional extreme metal underground. Their music sat at the heavier, riff-driven end of the melodic death/metalcore crossover that characterized much of the mid-2000s European metal scene.
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