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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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Punishing Technical / Progressive Death Metal out of Texas.
Budapest-based melodic death metal/metalcore act active since 2021, blending Gothenburg-inspired guitar harmonies with metalcore's dynamic structures and breakdown-driven intensity. Their sound bridges the melodic death metal tradition with modern extreme metal's visceral energy.
Jászfényszaru-based groove metal act active since 2025, anchoring their sound in mid-tempo, syncopated riffing designed to generate maximum physical impact. Their chunky, headbang-inducing compositions channel the spirit of Pantera and Lamb of God.
German metalcore and melodic death metal band from Frauenau in the Bavarian Forest, formed in 2011. They combine metalcore dynamics with melodic death metal influences from rural Bavaria.
German black/death metal band from Hamm, formed in 2023. They forge infernal black/death metal from the Westphalian industrial region.
Spanish death metal band from Ponferrada in the El Bierzo region, formed in 2017. They deliver void-summoning death metal from the mountainous northwest.
Melodic doom/death metal project from Gmünd, Austria, formed in 2018. They meld the sorrowful melodies of doom metal with death metal's guttural intensity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2014. Their irreverent pop-culture name belies a serious commitment to extreme metal.
Death/doom metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2024. They fuse death metal's aggression with doom's overwhelming weight.
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