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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Apocalypse (2023)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2015)
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German death metal and grindcore band from Speyer, formed in 2012. They deliver relentless blasts of death-grind extremity from the Palatinate.
German death/thrash metal band from Bremen, formed in 2015. They combine death metal's crushing weight with thrash metal's speed from the Hanseatic city.
French death metal band from Toulouse, formed in 2014. They deliver age-old death metal brutality from the pink city of Occitanie.
German black metal band from Saarlouis, formed in 2019, whose sound evolved from a black/death/gothic metal and rock hybrid toward a purer black metal direction. Their stylistic refinement reflects an increasingly focused vision.
German death metal band from Saarland, formed in 2025. They bring fresh death metal brutality to the southwestern German underground.
German death metal band from Kassel, formed in 2022. They channel punishing death metal from the heart of northern Hesse.
Death metal outfit from Naturno (Bolzano), 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.
Uncompromising death metal from Gävle, active since 2015. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Berezne (early)/Rivne (later)-based death metal act active since 2012, 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.
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