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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Wild Child (2023)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Serbian post-metal act active since 2025, building patient, dynamic compositions that arc from whispered ambient passages to walls of crushing distortion. Their sound draws from the tradition of Neurosis and Isis, prioritizing atmosphere and emotional narrative.
Spanish death metal and grindcore band from Ponferrada in León province, formed in 2016. They deliver bleeding death-grind from the mountainous El Bierzo region.
German thrash metal band from Henstedt-Ulzburg near Hamburg, formed in 2015. They deliver fast, punishing thrash metal from the Hamburg metropolitan area.
Brutal death metal band from Lida, Belarus, active since 2012. They deliver pulverizing brutal death metal from the western Belarusian town.
Spanish metalcore band from Córdoba, formed in 2025. They bring fresh metalcore energy to the Andalusian underground.
German project from Berlin, formed in 2019, that evolved from dungeon synth origins toward death/doom metal. Their stylistic transformation from synthesizer atmospherics to crushing extreme metal represents a dramatic creative shift.
Spanish death metal and deathcore band from Tarragona, formed in 2014. They combine death metal brutality with deathcore breakdowns from the Catalan coast.
Punishing brutal death metal from Lisbon, formed in 2006. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Doom/sludge metal act from Treviso, formed in 2003. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
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