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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Sharing (2022)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
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Technical death metal act from Slagharen in Overijssel, formed in 2021. Cromm Cruac — named after an Irish pagan deity — delivers intricate death metal from rural eastern Netherlands.
Blackened thrash act from Catania, Sicily, active since 2013. Cromìa Oscura — Italian for 'dark hue' — channels dark aggression from beneath Mount Etna.
Death-thrash metal band from Gomel, Belarus. Their sound merges the technical precision of death metal with the relentless speed of thrash, forging an aggressive and unrelenting approach to extreme music.
Death metal act from Lisbon, active since 2008. Cronaxia has spent nearly two decades delivering death metal from the Portuguese capital.
Death metal band from London, active since 2013. Named after filmmaker David Cronenberg, they deliver body-horror-themed death metal from the English capital.
Progressive metal act from Bergen, active since 2013. Cronian — connected to members of Borknagar and beyond — crafts expansive, atmospheric progressive metal from western Norway.
Folk metal band from Jaworzno in Upper Silesia, active since 2003. Cronica has spent over two decades weaving folk melodies into heavy metal from the Silesian region.
Speed-thrash metal band from Erlangen, Germany, active since 1995. With three decades of history, Cronos Titan are seasoned veterans of the Franconian speed-thrash scene.
Black metal project from Genoa, formed in 2021. Cronoth crafts raw black metal from the Ligurian port city.
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