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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Continuum (Feat. Niklas Karlsson) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning charnel house in French, Charnier deliver putrid death metal from the Mediterranean port city.
Black metal band from the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning carrion in French, Charogne channel decay and darkness through raw black metal.
Heavy metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2022. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Greek capital.
Power and speed metal band from Nantes, France, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Charter deliver seasoned power-speed metal from the Loire-Atlantique.
Death metal act from the Tuscan city of Siena, active since 2013. Charun — named after the Etruscan demon of the underworld — draws on ancient mythology for their crushing sound.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Alloa, Scotland, active since 2000. They channel the spirit of classic British heavy metal from the Clackmannanshire region.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Ipswich, England, active since 2000. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from Suffolk.
Heavy metal band from Sandefjord in Vestfold, southern Norway, formed in 2016. Chasing Demons brings classic metal energy to the Oslofjord region.
Groove metal, metalcore, and thrash band from Ebersbach an der Fils, Germany, formed in 2022. They blend heavy grooves with metalcore breakdowns and thrash speed from the Swabian foothills.
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