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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
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Power-thrash metal band from Kuortane, Finland, formed in 2020. They blend the melodic energy of power metal with thrash metal aggression.
Blackened death metal act from Reggio Emilia, one of the longer-running Italian extreme metal bands with roots stretching back to 2002. Confusion Gods has spent over two decades crafting dark, uncompromising extreme metal from Emilia-Romagna.
Doom and stoner metal band from Rostock, Germany, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing, fuzz-drenched doom from the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Brutal death metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2018. They deliver punishing extremity from Northern Ireland.
Brutal death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They deliver punishing, technically precise brutality driven by guttural vocals and relentless blast beats.
Death metal band from Viareggio on the Tuscan coast, formed in 2019. Congenital Deformity deals in morbid, pathology-themed death metal from the Versilia riviera.
Oslo-based slam and brutal death metal project launched in 2023, delivering guttural punishment through grinding heaviness and pulverizing breakdowns. Their extreme approach plumbs the lowest depths of the death metal spectrum.
Black-death-thrash metal band from Northampton, England, active since 2012. They blend three extreme metal genres into a fierce assault from the English Midlands.
Melodic death metal act from L'Aquila in Abruzzo, active since 2013. Congiura — Italian for 'conspiracy' — delivers melodic extremity from central Italy's mountain city.
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