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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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Death metal outfit from Palermo, 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.
Progressive thrash metal band from Lancashire, active since 2016. Their releases deliver adrenaline-fuelled, power-packed heavy metal and hard rock with progressive flourishes.
Umeå-based black metal act active since 2017, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Swedish lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Spanish melodic death metal and metalcore band from Madrid, formed in 2011. They channel wrathful melodic death metal with metalcore intensity from the Spanish capital.
Lublin-based metalcore act active since 2014, merging hardcore punk's confrontational energy with heavy metal's technical ambition. Their compositions trade between aggressive breakdowns and melodic passages with the dynamic range that defines the genre.
Metalcore crossover formation from the Kempen area of Belgium, active since 2020 with an energetic live presence. Their split with UK's Devils Grip and releases like "Shedding Skin" fuse metalcore intensity with crossover punk aggression.
German progressive and technical deathcore band from Freilassing, formed in 2018. They push deathcore into progressive and technical territory with complex song structures and precision musicianship.
Forged in 2022 from Athens, 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.
German doom/black metal band from Darmstadt, formed in 2020. They merge doom metal's crushing slow tempos with black metal's atmospheric malevolence.
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