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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Apocalypse (2023)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2015)
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Leidschendam-based melodic thrash metal act active since 1999, tempering the genre's trademark aggression with harmonized guitar leads and dynamic songwriting. Their approach delivers thrash metal's visceral energy without sacrificing melodic accessibility.
Death-grind act from Glasgow, formed in 2023. 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.
German metalcore/thrash/death metal band from Berlin, formed in 2011. They fuse metalcore breakdowns with thrash and death metal aggression for a multifaceted extreme sound.
French death metal and grindcore band from Nancy and Marbache, formed in 2012. They deliver headbashing death-grind from the Lorraine region.
French death metal band from Colmar in Alsace, formed in 2014. They deliver blood-themed death metal from the picturesque Rhine Valley wine route.
Danish death metal band from Tilst near Aarhus, active since 2009. They bring bloodlust-fueled death metal to the Jutland scene.
Danish band from Gråsten, formed in 2017, whose sound evolved from groove/death metal toward black metal. Their stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly dark and atmospheric vision.
French death/black metal band from Périgueux in Dordogne, formed in 2024. They forge blood-eagle death/black metal from the Périgord countryside.
Danish death metal band from Odense, formed in 2016. They deliver punishing death metal from the island of Funen.
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