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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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Technical death metal band from Essen and Bottrop, Germany, formed in 2011, delivering brain-twisting technical extremity from the Ruhr Area. Their intricate compositions push the limits of death metal technicality.
Progressive and technical death metal band from Rambouillet, France, formed in 2018, whose provocative name contrasts with the sophistication of their technical compositions. They deliver intricate progressive death metal from the Ile-de-France region.
A veteran of the Estonian alternative metal scene since 2000, Pedigree from Tallinn blends industrial textures with alternative rock sensibility. Their quarter-century of activity makes them one of the longest-running metal-adjacent acts in the Baltic region.
Technical death metal and deathcore band from Plock, Poland, formed in 2021, delivering technically demanding extremity from central Poland. They bring storm-force intensity to the Masovian metal underground.
Technical death metal band from Mirandela, Portugal, formed in 2018, delivering technically demanding death metal from the remote Tras-os-Montes region. They bring precision extremity to the northern Portuguese interior.
Technical death metal band from Wloclawek, Poland, formed in 2015, crafting mathematically precise technical death metal. They bring cerebral extremity to the Kuyavian metal scene.
Technical death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2011, delivering technically intricate death metal from Finland's former capital. Their medical-term name suits the clinical precision of their compositions.
Radical Meek is a technical death metal band from Leicester, England, active since 2013. The band delivers precision-driven technical death metal from the East Midlands.
Technical death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2017. Named after the Hindu goddess of destruction, their approach delivers technically demanding death metal from the Russian capital.
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