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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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Sludge metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing, oppressive sludge from the Alsatian capital.
Melodic death metal band from Offenbach, Germany, formed in 2017. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Rhine-Main metropolitan area.
Gothic metal act from Chelyabinsk in the Urals, formed in 2021. Cordolium — Latin for 'heartache' — crafts dark, emotional gothic metal.
Progressive metal act from Velenje, active since 2003. Cordura has spent over two decades crafting intricate progressive metal from the Slovenian mining town.
Symphonic metal project from Varaždin, Croatia, formed in 2017. Core of Creation weaves orchestral arrangements and soaring melodies into a polished heavy metal framework.
Melodic death metal act from Kazan and the nearby tech hub of Innopolis, formed in 2017. Core of Dying Earth delivers apocalyptic melodic death metal from Tatarstan.
Stockholm epic doom metal act formed in 2018, crafting grandiose compositions that merge crushing heaviness with sweeping narrative scope. Their ambitious approach channels doom metal's most majestic and weighty traditions.
Sofia-based groove and sludge metal act formed in 2011 by members of several Bulgarian underground bands including KPD-0, GRAD, and Osil Amuk. Their 2014 full-length Crawling Under The Heavy Foot Of Addiction layers stoner-tinged heaviness over grinding sludge grooves.
Groove-thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They combine heavy grooves with thrash speed from the Finnish capital.
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