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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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Austrian raw black metal project that emerged in 2024 with their debut release Satanic Shockwave, six tracks of straightforward satanic black metal composed and recorded during autumn 2023. Their limited-edition CD-R run of 30 hand-numbered copies sold out quickly.
Death metal and hardcore band from Chelyabinsk, Russia, formed in 2017, delivering crushing extremity from the southern Urals industrial city. They bring over eight years of death-hardcore to the Russian scene.
Death metal band from Dej, Romania, active since 2003, delivering over two decades of death metal from the northern Transylvanian town. They are veterans of the Romanian extreme metal underground.
Barcelona's Pvrgatorii emerged in 2021 fusing black metal's atmospheric menace with punk's urgency and accessibility. Their stylized Latin name and Catalan base connect them to a Mediterranean tradition of black-punk crossover that prizes energy over orthodoxy.
Industrial thrash metal band from Arcueil, France, formed in 2012, fusing particle-accelerator energy with thrash metal velocity and industrial precision. They bring scientific intensity to the southern Parisian suburban metal scene.
Blackened grindcore and crust band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2012, named after the opium alkaloid protopine. Over a decade of chemical-fueled extremity from the Russian capital.
Sludge metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2024, whose name playfully means 'proto-elephant.' They bring newly formed, elephantine sludge weight to the Moscow underground.
Heavy metal and hard rock band from Tczew, Poland, formed in 2015, delivering classic heavy metal prototypes from the Pomeranian region. They bring traditional metal energy to the Vistula Delta area.
Groove and sludge metal band from Slovenia, formed in 2019, combining heavy grooves with sludge metal weight. They bring experimental heaviness to the Slovenian metal scene.
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