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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Wild Child (2023)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Doom/death metal band from Novovoronezh, Russia, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of crushing doom-death from the nuclear power plant town in the Voronezh Oblast.
Death/thrash metal band from Dongen, the Netherlands, formed in 2022. Their approach merges death metal heaviness with thrash velocity from the North Brabant town.
Rienaus is a black metal band from Espoo/Helsinki, Finland, active since 2010. Named after the Finnish word for 'blasphemy,' the band delivers raw black metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Death metal band from Gdańsk, Poland, active since 2013. Their German name, meaning 'giant,' accompanies death metal from the Baltic coast.
Rietas is a black metal band from Tornio at the Finnish-Swedish border, formed in 2020. The band channels cold black metal from the northernmost reaches of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Death metal band from Brescia, Italy, active since 2017. Their exhumation-themed name accompanies death metal from the Lombardy industrial city.
Southern/groove metal and alternative rock band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2009. Their long-running project delivers American-influenced groove and southern metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2020. Their descriptively mammoth name accompanies crushing triple-genre heaviness from the Polish capital.
Thrash metal band from Trikala, Greece, with roots dating to 2005. Two decades of thrash from the Thessalian city represent dedicated underground service.
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