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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Mealhada-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2020, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
Cosmic death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2023 and signed to Great Dane Records. Their releases Diffraction Matters and Distant Planets fuse melodic death metal precision with sprawling cosmic themes, driven by dual guitars, growled vocals, and intricate arrangements.
Death metal band from Barysaw, Belarus, active since 2015. They deliver straightforward death metal aggression from the town northeast of Minsk.
Groove metal outfit from Aveiro District, formed in 2020. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
Black/death metal project from Montargis in central France, active since 2008. Their sound merges black metal's atmospheric intensity with death metal's crushing low end.
Death metal outfit from Catanzaro, formed in 2018. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
German thrash/death/groove metal band from Weiden in the Upper Palatinate, formed in 2013. They blend three metal traditions with a beer-fueled attitude from eastern Bavaria.
German melodic death metal band from Hamburg, formed in 2025. They bring thorny melodic death metal to Hamburg's deep metal tradition.
Punishing brutal death metal from Turin, formed in 2022. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
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