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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Electronic metalcore and melodic death metal hybrid from Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardinia formed in 2022, fusing programmed electronics with heavy guitar-driven aggression. Their approach bridges the gap between digital production and organic metalcore intensity.
Metalcore and deathcore act from Lucerne, Switzerland, bringing crushing breakdowns and aggressive intensity since 2020. Their sound merges the rhythmic precision of metalcore with deathcore's heavier, more extreme tendencies.
Death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Seinajoki, Finland active since 2014. They deliver aggressive, modern extreme metal from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Metalcore and melodic death metal act from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2025, fusing the rhythmic breakdowns of metalcore with the melodic intensity of Scandinavian-style death metal. A fresh addition to Vienna's diverse extreme metal underground.
Metalcore and power metal band from Paris, France formed in 2018. They blend the intensity of metalcore with the melodic sweep of power metal.
Metalcore band from Dadizele in West Flanders, Belgium, delivering heavy breakdowns and melodic passages since 2020. Their approach draws from the modern metalcore playbook with an emphasis on dynamic songwriting and emotional intensity.
Groove/alternative metal and metalcore act from Dortmund, Germany, blending multiple heavy styles since 2010. Their approach fuses the rhythmic punch of groove metal with alternative metal's accessibility and metalcore's aggressive energy.
Melodic thrash metal and metalcore act from Lingen/Ems in Lower Saxony, Germany, blending harmonic precision with aggressive energy since 2014. Their approach merges the best of melodic thrash with metalcore's dynamic breakdowns.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Bolzano-based metalcore act channels hardcore aggression refined with metal's technical ambition. Active since 2006, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
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