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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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German black/death metal band from Upper Franconia, formed in 2021. They merge black and death metal into a parasitic, blood-soaked sonic assault.
Punishing brutal death metal from Rostov-on-Don, formed in 2025. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Death-grind act from Milan, formed in 2012. 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 death metal band from Saarbrücken, formed in 2013. They deliver bloodthirsty death metal from the Saarland capital.
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Den Helder-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2015, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Death metal band from Belgium, active since 2018. They deliver grim death metal beneath a provocatively irreverent name.
Death/black metal band from Deutschlandsberg, Austria, active since 2010. Their demo material features atmospheric extreme metal with dark, apocalyptic themes and artwork by Dr. Winter.
German melodic death metal band from Salem in Baden-Württemberg, formed in 2017. They forge melodic death metal with sharp songwriting from the shores of Lake Constance.
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