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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Melodic death-power metal band from Espoo/Helsinki, Finland, active since 2012. They carry the spirit of Finnish melodic death metal with power metal hooks and dynamic songwriting.
Progressive black-doom act from Bergen, active since 2015. Children of Cain blends atmospheric black metal with doom and progressive elements from Norway's western capital.
Gothic doom act from Maribor, Slovenia's second-largest city, active since 2009. Children of God merges dark gothic atmospherics with crushing doom from the Drava River city.
Death-doom-grind band from the Meinersen/Gifhorn area of Lower Saxony, Germany, active since 2012. They blend the crushing weight of doom with the aggression of death metal and the chaos of grindcore.
Speed-thrash act from Padua, active since 2010. Children of Technology plays a filthy, post-apocalyptic brand of speed metal heavily influenced by the crust punk and d-beat traditions.
Symphonic metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2021. They create grand, orchestral metal with lush arrangements from Finland's third-largest city.
Blackened death metal act originally from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2021. Children of the Void delivers dark, nihilistic extreme metal from the Baltic region.
Black doom act from Lecco, Lombardy, formed in 2020. Chiliarch of Seth merges occult black metal with crushing doom pacing.
Progressive metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2020. They craft intricate, dynamic compositions with technical sophistication from the Lower Saxon capital.
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