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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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Danish metalcore/heavy metal band formed in 2011, blending metalcore's breakdown-driven dynamics with traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility. Their energetic approach bridges modern and classic metal traditions.
Metalcore band from Athens, active since 2015 and delivering the genre's signature blend of hardcore aggression and metal precision. Their sound features the dynamic shifts between heavy breakdowns and melodic passages that characterize modern metalcore.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this groove metal and metalcore act from Kraków traffics in chugging, syncopated riffs built for maximum head-nodding impact. Since 2016, they've built a catalog that reflects Poland's relentlessly productive underground.
Death/groove metal/metalcore band from Aachen, active since 2009 and blending multiple heavy styles into a versatile sonic assault. Their long tenure on Germany's western border has produced a battle-tested live act.
Death/thrash metal and metalcore hybrid from Hamburg and Kiel, active since 2009 and blending old-school aggression with modern dynamics. Their dual-city roots reflect the interconnected northern German metal underground.
Groove metal/metalcore band from Don Benito in Extremadura, formed in 2023 and bringing heavy, modern metal to one of Spain's less-represented metal regions. Their sound pairs groove metal's crushing rhythms with metalcore's dynamic breakdowns.
Groove metal/metalcore band from Suhescun in the French Basque Country, formed in 2023 and delivering heavy, rhythmically punishing compositions. Their Basque-region origins add a distinctive cultural identity to their modern metal.
Death metal and metalcore band from Thessaloniki, active since 2013 and bridging the brutality of death metal with metalcore's dynamic structures. Their sound merges guttural extremity with the compositional range of modern heavy music.
Progressive death metal and metalcore band from the Somerset/Wiltshire border, active since 2015 with releases including the EP Pariah and Divine Self Invention. Their sound bridges the technical complexity of progressive death metal with metalcore's dynamic structures.
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