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Strychnine.213 (Bonus Track Edition) (2023)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Uncompromising death metal from Linköping, active since 2016. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
German thrash metal band from Düsseldorf, formed in 2019. They deliver shockwave-inducing thrash metal from the Rhineland capital.
Progressive metal and metalcore act from Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2012. They blend progressive complexity with metalcore's dynamic shifts and heavy breakdowns.
Lincoln-based grindcore outfit active since 2014, delivering ferocious blasts of fury that leave no room for conventional song structures. Their compositions compress maximum aggression into minimal running times.
Power metal outfit from Trondheim, formed in 2018. Their sound combines high-register vocals with twin-guitar harmonies and double-bass drumming in the grand tradition of melodic heavy metal.
German black metal band from Würzburg, formed in 2020. Named after the vast cosmic void, they channel emptiness and darkness into atmospheric black metal.
Black metal project from the Netherlands, emerging in 2024. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Dutch origins.
Caldicot-based thrash metal act active since 2013, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a British filter.
German depressive and post-black metal project from the Frankfurt-Oberursel area, formed in 2016. They merge depressive black metal's emotional anguish with post-black metal's atmospheric breadth.
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