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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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Albuquerque death metal, grindcore, and powerviolence band formed in 2020, named after the HTTP 502 error code and releasing brutal short-form material from the New Mexico underground.
Philadelphia melodic death metal and metalcore act blending Scandinavian-influenced melodeath heaviness with metalcore structure. Active in the Pennsylvania underground since the early 2020s.
Seattle progressive thrash and death metal band pushing the genre's technical boundaries with dynamic shifts and complex arrangements since their formation in the mid-2010s.
Spanish death metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2017. They channel death metal intensity from the industrial heart of the Basque Country.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Kokkola, formed in 2021. They craft melodic death metal from the Central Ostrobothnian coast.
Death metal outfit from Modena, formed in 2010. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Finnish band from Helsinki, formed in 2011, whose sound evolved from rock and hard rock toward melodic death and viking metal. Their dramatic stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly heavy and Nordic vision.
Oklahoma City death metal and hardcore band fusing the brutality of death metal with hardcore's confrontational intensity, with lyrics centering on the destructive pull of addiction.
Death metal and groove/thrash metal act from Velke Mezirici, Czech Republic, active since 2016. They blend multiple strains of extreme metal into a versatile attack.
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