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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Spanish death metal band from Asturias, formed in 2021. They deliver scorching death metal from the green coast of northern Spain.
Punishing brutal death metal from Athens, formed in 2014. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Thrash and death metal band from Huy, Belgium, formed in 2024. They represent a new eruption of extreme metal aggression from the Wallonian underground.
Punishing brutal death metal from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2005. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Plymouth-based deathcore act active since 2025, 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.
Finnish black/death metal band from Tampere, formed in 2022. They deliver burial-themed black/death metal from Finland's industrial heartland.
Punishing brutal death metal from Vilnius, formed in 2020. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German deathcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2020. They deliver crushing deathcore with punishing breakdowns.
Finnish death/groove metal band from Tampere, formed in 2016. They combine death metal brutality with groove metal's rhythmic hooks.
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