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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
Inhale The Noise (2026)
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Groove metal act from Moscow, formed in 2019. Cannonball Mephisto delivers heavy, riff-driven grooves from the Russian capital.
Heavy metal band from Konstanz on Lake Constance, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel classic heavy metal power and anthemic energy from the southern German border.
Progressive death metal act from Olbia, Sardinia, formed in 2018. Cannot blends technical complexity with death metal brutality from the Mediterranean island.
Gothic folk-doom act from Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan, active since 2014. Canonis blends folk melodies with gothic doom from the industrial city on the Kama River.
Heavy metal band from Gothenburg, active since 2013. Cans delivers straightforward traditional metal from Sweden's metal capital.
Melodic death metal act from Kyiv, active since 2014. Cantabile Wind delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Doom and black metal band from Geel, Belgium, formed in 2014. They merge the crushing weight and glacial pace of doom metal with the cold ferocity of black metal into a bleak, oppressive sound.
Death metal band from the Pieria region of northern Greece, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing death metal from the foothills of Mount Olympus.
Black metal project from Salgareda in the Treviso province, formed in 2019. Canticum Diaboli — Latin for 'Song of the Devil' — deals in diabolical black metal from the Veneto flatlands.
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