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Featured Album
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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Speed metal and punk band from Bucharest, Romania, formed in 2025, fusing classic speed metal velocity with punk rock attitude. They bring fresh crossover energy to the Romanian capital.
Progressive metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2019, named after the abandoned city near the Chernobyl disaster. They craft elaborate progressive metal compositions informed by themes of catastrophe and survival.
Black metal band from Transylvania, Romania, formed in 2023, evoking the nuclear wasteland through atmospheric black metal from the Carpathian heartland. They channel post-apocalyptic desolation through extreme metal.
Stoner and doom metal band from London, England, formed in 2016, dealing in heavy, low-tuned riffs and crushing grooves. They contribute to London's extensive stoner and doom metal community.
Death and doom metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2022, refracting death-doom through the prism of Ukrainian underground metal. They bring crushing, multifaceted heaviness from the capital.
Technical death metal band from Mirandela, Portugal, formed in 2018, delivering technically demanding death metal from the remote Tras-os-Montes region. They bring precision extremity to the northern Portuguese interior.
Melodic death metal band from Nitra, Slovakia, formed in 2020, expressing existential confinement through melodic death metal from the historic Nitra region. They bring emotional depth to Slovak metal.
Düsseldorf's Prison of Pain has been channeling Southern groove and metal since 2016, bringing a distinctly American-inflected heaviness to the Rhine-Ruhr metropolis. Their downtuned, swaggering approach owes as much to Pantera and Down as to any European tradition.
Heavy metal band from Logrono, Spain, formed in 2020, delivering classic heavy metal from the Rioja wine country. They bring traditional metal energy to a region better known for its vineyards.
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