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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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Doom metal project from London, active since 2022. Their glacial compositions channel the weight and darkness of classic doom from the British capital's underground.
Death metal band from Lieferinge, Belgium, active since 2013. Their uncompromising approach to the genre delivers the kind of punishing, no-frills death metal that thrives in the Belgian extreme music underground.
Sludge metal/crust band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2018. Their crushing fusion of sludge heaviness and crust punk aggression creates a nihilistic wall of sound from the German capital.
Humanize is a death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2019 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Heavy metal band from Schorndorf, Germany, formed in 2018. Their powerful sound channels classic heavy metal traditions from the Rems valley in Baden-Wurttemberg.
Technical death metal act from Genk, Belgium, formed in 2020. Their intricate, technically demanding approach pushes death metal into complex territory with precision playing and labyrinthine compositions.
Humanoise is a death metal/grindcore band from Esztergom, Hungary, active since 2021 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Metal band from Manresa, Spain, with releases including the 2014 EP "Solitude" and the single "Gloom of the Sight." Their darkly themed catalog explores introspective territory through progressive and death metal influences.
Forged in Espoo's metal community, this progressive/symphonic metal act channels furious aggression since 2015. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
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