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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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French deathcore band from Reims in Champagne, formed in 2011. They deliver crushing deathcore from the city of coronations and champagne.
Death metal and grindcore band from Braunau am Inn, Austria, grinding since 2016. They deliver a volatile blend of guttural death metal savagery and grindcore's breakneck tempo shifts.
Old school death metal band from Graz, Austria, formed in 2023. Their debut album "In Fear We Trust" was recorded at Studio 66 and mixed by Peter Fritz, featuring six tracks of classic death metal including a cover of "California Dreamin'."
Szentes-based melodic black metal project active in the underground, tempering raw aggression with sweeping arrangements and harmonized guitar leads. Their approach balances the genre's inherent hostility with moments of dark grandeur.
Atmospheric death metal act from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2023. They explore death metal through an atmospheric lens from Switzerland's largest city.
Brutal death metal act from Neunkirchen, Austria, formed in 2021, delivering German-language extreme metal. Their material pairs poetically titled tracks with the crushing, guttural intensity of brutal death metal.
Black/death/doom metal project from Londonderry in Northern Ireland, active since 2008, blending extreme metal with dark ambient and prog elements. Their extensive discography from Aisling Dhorcha through the epic Beowulf draws on Irish mythology, W.B. Yeats poetry, and themes of mortality, with logos by Christophe Szpajdel.
Swedish death metal act active since 2019, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Death-grind act from Gothenburg, formed in 2019. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
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