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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Death metal and grindcore act from Brno, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. They channel the Moravian capital's rich extreme metal heritage through a blend of grinding blasts and guttural death metal.
Groove-thrash metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2016. They combine heavy grooves with thrash aggression from the Pink City.
Belarusian metal act blending death metal, industrial metal, and thrash metal into a mechanized, aggressive sound. Their genre-crossing approach draws from both extreme and electronic metal traditions.
Black metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2011. They craft atmospheric, Lovecraft-inspired black metal from the Swabian capital.
Death-doom metal band from Varna, Bulgaria, active since 2019. They fuse the crushing heaviness of death metal with the slow, oppressive weight of doom, creating a dark and suffocating sonic atmosphere.
Death-thrash act from Grândola in the Alentejo, active since 2010. Cryptor Morbious Family channels morbid, family-styled extreme metal from southern Portugal's cork oak country.
Death metal band from Sarov, the closed nuclear city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, active since 1993. Cryptos has spent over three decades delivering death metal from one of Russia's most secretive cities.
Progressive thrash metal band from Enschede in Overijssel, active since 2012. Cryptosis has earned international acclaim for their technically ambitious, forward-thinking thrash metal.
One-man atmospheric black metal project from Mogilev, Belarus, active since 2020. Across releases like The Epitome of Dystopia and Scythe of the Black Death, Cryptospital crafts dense, despairing atmospheres within a raw black metal framework.
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