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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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Death metal outfit from Kraków, 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.
French thrash/death metal band from Boulogne-sur-Mer, active since 2005. They deliver two decades of thrash-death from the Channel coast of northern France.
Finnish death/black metal project formed in 2021. Named after Buddhist monks, they merge death and black metal with ascetic intensity.
Września-based death metal act active since 2020, 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.
Melodic death metal outfit from Lisbon, formed in 2018. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
Sludge/doom/death metal band from Sheffield, formed in 2010. They fuse the crushing weight of doom with death metal's intensity and sludge metal's abrasive grime from the steel city's underground.
Death metal outfit from Košice, formed in 2007. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Arruda dos Vinhos-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2013, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
Spanish melodic death/folk metal band from Donostia-San Sebastián, formed in 2012. They blend melodic death metal with folk metal's festive spirit from the Basque coast.
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