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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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Metalcore band from Neeroeteren, Belgium, active since 2012. They combine heavy breakdowns with melodic passages, representing the metalcore scene from Belgium's Limburg province near the Dutch border.
Black metal band from Bern, Switzerland, active since 2012. They channel dark, atmospheric intensity through the lens of Swiss black metal tradition.
Progressive groove-heavy metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend progressive complexity with heavy grooves.
NWOBHM heavy metal band from Fareham in Hampshire, England. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the south coast.
NWOBHM heavy metal band from Sheffield, England, active since 1981. One of the original NWOBHM bands, Chinawite have been forging heavy metal from the Steel City for over four decades.
Power metal band from Boblingen near Stuttgart, Germany, active since 1995. With three decades of history, Chinchilla are stalwarts of the German power metal tradition, delivering melodic, high-energy metal.
Heavy metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2015. They forge classic heavy metal from the Spanish capital.
Atmospheric black metal and doom act from Piacenza, active since 2014. Chiral crafts expansive, contemplative extreme metal that bridges the atmospheric and doom traditions.
Melodic death metal band from Almelo in Overijssel, active since 2008. Chiraw has spent over fifteen years crafting hook-driven death metal from eastern Netherlands.
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