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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Inhale The Noise (2026)
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Death metal outfit from Nottingham, formed in 2021. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Funeral doom entity from Mór, formed in 2018. Their compositions unfold over vast stretches of time, building cavernous walls of distorted guitar that press down with the weight of a collapsing universe.
German melodic death metal band from Papenburg in East Frisia, active since 2008. They bring nearly two decades of melodic death metal to the North Sea coast region.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Gällivare, active since 2025. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Atmospheric black metal entity from Athens, formed in 1994. Their sound envelops the listener in walls of reverb-drenched tremolo picking and shimmering ambient passages that dissolve the boundary between beauty and ferocity.
Spanish groove metal band from Madrid, formed in 2022. They lock into heavy grooves from the Spanish capital.
Finnish brutal death/black metal band from Saarijärvi, formed in 2023. They deliver burial-mound-dwelling extreme metal from central Finland.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Prato, active since 2026. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Thrash and groove metal band from Dagmersellen, Switzerland, active since 2018. They combine thrash metal's speed with groove metal's head-nodding rhythms.
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