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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Sharing (2022)
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The Seed of Singularity (2024)
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Spanish death metal band formed in 2022. They deliver brain-dead death metal with unrelenting ferocity.
Budapest-based death metal/deathcore act active since 2009, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with modern breakdown-heavy dynamics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Groove and thrash metal band from Bulgaria, formed in 2025. A brand-new act delivering crushing grooves and thrash metal velocity.
German thrash/groove metal band from Seesen in Lower Saxony, formed in 2025. They bring fresh thrash-groove energy to the Harz region.
German death/thrash metal band from Cottbus in Brandenburg, formed in 2015. They deliver death-thrash extremity from the Lusatian lowlands.
Moscow-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2022, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Ancona-based thrash metal act active since 2015, 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 Italian filter.
Heavy metal band from Aalst, Belgium, one of the longer-running acts in the country's scene with roots going back to 2003. They bring over two decades of traditional heavy metal commitment.
Death metal outfit from Oslo, formed in 2016. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
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