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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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Finnish melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Rovaniemi, formed in 2012. They deliver aggressive melodeath-thrash from the Arctic Circle capital of Finnish Lapland.
Czech death/doom metal project from Prague, formed in 2025, fusing death, doom, and black metal into brooding, heavy compositions. Their early output includes tracks like Corpsick and Betrayal alongside the release Bury the Bodies.
French melodic death metal and metalcore band from Sarrebourg in Lorraine, formed in 2018. They blend melodeath with metalcore from the eastern French borderlands.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Kerava, formed in 2019. They deliver melodic death metal from the Uusimaa region near Helsinki.
Melodic death metal outfit from Poznań, formed in 2016. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
Stockholm-based melodic death metal act active since 2019, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
French melodic death metal band from Sèvres near Paris, formed in 2015. They craft chronicle-worthy melodic death metal from the Île-de-France region.
German melodic death/groove metal band from Munich, formed in 2019. They blend melodic death metal's twin-guitar harmonies with groove metal's rhythmic weight from Bavaria's capital.
Groningen-based melodic death metal act active since 2011, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
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