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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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German death metal band from the Marburg-Dillenburg area, formed in 2025. They represent fresh death metal brutality from the Hessian highlands.
German deathcore band from Hamm, active since 2007. With nearly two decades of breakdowns and brutality, they are a veteran deathcore act from Westphalia.
Finnish death metal band from Vantaa, formed in 2025. They deliver soul-rending death metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Death metal band from Ghent, Belgium, active since 2021. They forge gritty, uncompromising death metal from Belgium's cultural capital.
Groove metal outfit from Rotterdam, formed in 2014. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
German death metal and metalcore band from Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich, formed in 2021. They combine death metal heaviness with metalcore structures from the Upper Bavarian suburbs.
German death metal band from Ludwigsfelde near Berlin, formed in 2018. They deliver splatter-themed death metal from the Brandenburg outskirts of the capital.
Thrash metal outfit from Limburg, formed in 2018. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German death metal band from Marienberg in the Erzgebirge, formed in 2017. They craft morbid death metal from the mountainous Saxon mining region.
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