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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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German black/death metal band from Aschaffenburg, formed in 2023. They deliver extreme, provocative black/death metal with an uncompromising approach.
Thrash metal outfit from Säffle, formed in 2020. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Uncompromising death metal from Saint Petersburg, active since 2014. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Kastoria-based death metal act active since 2021, 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 metal outfit from Italy, formed in 2016. 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 heavy/death metal band from Flensburg, formed in 2024. They merge traditional heavy metal power with death metal's guttural intensity from the far north.
French thrash/death metal band from Poitiers, formed in 2016. They deliver bestial thrash-death from the historic Aquitaine city.
Bestial Nuclear Atrocity is a Brazilian black/death metal band formed in 2022. They released "Holocausto Podre e Profano da Desolação" in September 2022, a recording mastered by Filipe Silva that places the band within Brazil's underground bestial black/death metal tradition.
Uncompromising death metal from Stockholm, active since 2020. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
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