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Featured Album
Infinite Terror (2022)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Inhale The Noise (2026)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Apocalypse (2023)
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Doom and stoner metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2012. They deliver crushing, psychedelic doom-stoner from the Finnish capital.
Groove metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They deliver heavy, rhythm-driven metal from the Finnish capital.
Black metal band from Hasselt, Belgium, active since 2013, blending atmospheric and post-black metal elements. Their debut album 'In Solitary Minds' spans nearly 49 minutes of introspective, layered black metal.
Crossover thrash act from the Sabugal and Castelo Branco area in central Portugal's interior, formed in 2019. Crab Monsters delivers punk-fueled thrash from the rural Beira Baixa region.
Heavy metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver hard-hitting, classic heavy metal from the Bavarian capital.
Death metal band from Hunxe in the Lower Rhine region, Germany, active since 2010. They channel death metal aggression from the rural North Rhine-Westphalian countryside.
Groove metal band from Maia in the Porto metropolitan area, active since 2015. Crackdown delivers heavy, rhythmically-driven grooves from northern Portugal.
Death-doom-gothic metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 1995. With three decades of history, Cracked Corpuscles are veterans of the Saxon extreme metal scene, blending gothic atmospheres with crushing death-doom.
Grindcore band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2022. They deliver chaotic, abrasive grinding fury from the Finnish lake district.
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