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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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Industrial death metal band from Sjaelland, Denmark, active since 2015. Their mechanized approach fuses the cold precision of industrial music with death metal brutality.
Melodic death/groove metal band from Franconia/Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2026. The freshest melodic death-groove voice in the Bavarian scene, they blend catchy melodies with heavy grooves.
Human Meat is a grindcore act from France, active since 2019 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Heavy metal outfit from Granada in Andalusia, newly formed in 2025. Their straightforward name declares allegiance to traditional metal from a city renowned for Moorish architecture and flamenco.
Human Nihility is a brutal death metal band from Luhansk, Ukraine, formed in 2015. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Based in Sicily, this black/death metal project has been a fixture of Italy's underground since 2022. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Paris-based heavy metal act active since 2019. Their celestial name suits compositions that shine with the melodic brilliance of classic European heavy metal from the French capital.
Thrash metal act from Belfast in Northern Ireland, active since 2020. Their retaliatory name suits aggressive thrash compositions forged across the Irish Sea.
Death metal outfit from Fürstenfeld, Austria, active since 2014. Their brutal approach to the genre draws on old-school European death metal traditions, delivering punishing riffs and guttural vocals from the Styrian underground.
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