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French crossover/thrash metal band formed in 2013. They deliver bloc-smashing crossover thrash.
German metalcore/thrash/death metal band from Berlin, formed in 2011. They fuse metalcore breakdowns with thrash and death metal aggression for a multifaceted extreme sound.
French death metal and grindcore band from Nancy and Marbache, formed in 2012. They deliver headbashing death-grind from the Lorraine region.
Blockheads is a French grindcore band formed in 1992, widely regarded as the leading act in France's extreme underground scene. The band released its debut album Last Tribes in 1995 and built an international reputation through relentless touring alongside Napalm Death, Nasum, Carcass, and Obituary. Their 2006 album Shapes of Misery on Overcome Records is considered a landmark of European grindcore, and the band has continued releasing material and performing across the global extreme metal circuit for over three decades.
Heavy/Glam Metal outfit from Turin, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the full spectrum of their genre influences into a cohesive body of work that speaks to dedicated followers of heavy music.
Danish black metal band from Aakirkeby on the island of Bornholm, active since 2001. With over two decades of output from their isolated island home, they bring a unique atmospheric quality to Scandinavian black metal.
Danish black metal band active since 2005. They deliver two decades of raw, uncompromising Danish black metal.
Forged in 2005 from Sweden, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Welsh-American unblack metal project blending raw, lo-fi production with sweeping melodic passages across releases like Evangelism and It Is Finished. Their sound applies the aesthetic framework of second-wave black metal to spiritually-themed lyrical content.
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