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Strychnine.213 (Bonus Track Edition) (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Melodic death metal outfit from Strasbourg in Alsace, active since 2013. Their Monegasque-inspired name adds character to compositions blending melodic death metal with the Franco-Germanic musical traditions of the Rhine borderlands.
Melodic black/death metal band from Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium, formed in 2024. Their debut album Into The Abyss delivers eight tracks spanning nearly forty minutes of extreme metal that weaves between black, death, and thrash metal intensity.
Black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2023. Their sound channels cold Scandinavian black metal traditions with a fresh, modern intensity from the Danish capital.
Raw black/folk metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2025. Their name meaning 'Black Host,' they blend raw black metal aggression with folk elements from the Catalan underground.
Huge CCM is a groove metal/deathcore band from Pszczyna, Poland, active since 2006 and delivering heavy, rhythmic riffage with crushing mid-tempo intensity. The project channels the headbanging immediacy of groove metal.
Austrian grindcore and powerviolence band from Graz, formed in 2017, with a tongue-in-cheek name that belies their crushing sound. Their releases including Diese ewige Instandhaltung kotzt mich an deliver short, sharp bursts of extreme aggression with German-language fury.
Dutch black metal/punk project channeling scorching darkness since 2017. Atmospheric depth and feral intensity coexist in their compositions.
Stoner doom metal project from Strasbourg in the Grand Est region, active since 2020. Their atomic name matches compositions of elemental heaviness, channeling cosmic doom from Alsace's cultural capital.
Doom metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, active since 2010. Their name meaning 'Lost Souls,' they channel the crushing weight and melancholy of doom metal from the Baltic coast.
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