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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Death metal act from the Trieste and Gorizia border area, formed in 2023. Claustrum — Latin for 'enclosure' — crafts confining, suffocating death metal from Italy's far northeast.
Austrian black metal project formed in 2025, with releases 'The Nightside Emissary' and 'The Numinous Key.' Their work explores occult and esoteric themes through the lens of atmospheric black metal.
Black metal band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, active since 2013. Named after the Key of Solomon, they deliver occult-themed black metal from the northern coast.
Swiss black metal project formed in 2020. They craft austere, uncompromising black metal shaped by darkness and isolation.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, active since 2010. Their sound merges the classic power of heavy metal with the aggressive edge of thrash, delivering a hard-hitting crossover.
Death metal band from Joensuu, Finland, active since 2009. They deliver crushing death metal from the eastern Finnish frontier.
Groove metal band from Dublin, formed in 2022. Clay Pigeon deals in heavy, rhythmically-driven grooves rooted in the Dublin metal underground.
Death metal band from Aanekoski, Finland, formed in 2018. They channel death metal aggression from the central Finnish countryside.
Melodic death-power metal and metalcore band from Mering near Augsburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They blend melodic guitar harmonies with power metal energy and metalcore intensity.
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