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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Spanish black/death metal band from León, formed in 2020. They forge bestial black/death metal from the historic city of northwestern Spain.
Finnish death metal band from Joensuu, formed in 2015. They play crushing death metal from the forests of eastern Finland.
Death metal and grindcore trio from Stratford-upon-Avon, active since 2003, featuring Ewan Gibb on guitar and vocals. Their prolific catalog of splits and releases culminating in Analysis of Beauty delivers compact bursts of deathgrind and deathrash in tracks often under two minutes.
Spanish death/groove metal band from Escobedo de Camargo in Cantabria, formed in 2018. They blend death metal brutality with groove metal's rhythmic hooks.
Death metal outfit from Palermo, formed in 2021. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Spanish melodic death metal and metalcore band from Madrid, formed in 2011. They channel wrathful melodic death metal with metalcore intensity from the Spanish capital.
Metalcore crossover formation from the Kempen area of Belgium, active since 2020 with an energetic live presence. Their split with UK's Devils Grip and releases like "Shedding Skin" fuse metalcore intensity with crossover punk aggression.
German progressive and technical deathcore band from Freilassing, formed in 2018. They push deathcore into progressive and technical territory with complex song structures and precision musicianship.
Czech thrash/death metal and metalcore act from Rokycany, formed in 2018. They bring a volatile mix of thrash and death metal intensity with metalcore breakdowns.
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