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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Brutal death metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2023. A young act delivering punishing, guttural extremity in the French brutal death metal underground.
Punishing brutal death metal from Radomsko, formed in 2021. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German death/thrash/doom metal band from Krölpa in Thuringia, formed in 2016. They blend three heavy genres into a savage, multifaceted assault.
Czech experimental grindcore and death metal band from Prague, active since 1996, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Czech extreme music underground. Their nearly three decades of output blends grindcore chaos with death metal heaviness and experimental unpredictability.
's-Hertogenbosch-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2024, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Ylivieska, formed in 2013. They craft dusk-tinged melodic death metal from the Ostrobothnian interior.
England-based deathcore act active since 2026, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Czech death metal band from Česká Třebová, formed in 2010. They deliver straightforward, punishing death metal drawn from the genre's classic blueprints.
German melodic death metal band from Oldenburg, formed in 2017. They craft accessible yet aggressive melodic death metal from the North German plains.
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