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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Finnish blackened melodic death metal band from Laitila, formed in 2023. They merge black metal's darkness with melodic death metal harmonies under a bloody moon.
Bloody Morgue is a death metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2015 under the name Infernal Warfare before adopting their current name. The band released a self-titled debut in 2016 and is currently an independent act, continuing to operate within the Rio Grande do Sul extreme metal underground.
French melodic death metal band from Strasbourg, formed in 2013. They craft prideful melodic death metal from the Alsatian capital.
French deathcore band from Montguyon, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing deathcore from the rural Charente-Maritime countryside.
Emerging in 2026 from Revúca, this death metal act channels the genre's primal aggression through tight, riff-driven compositions. Their recordings carry the unmistakable weight of classic death metal.
German death/thrash metal band from Fulda, active since 2010. They combine death and thrash metal's brutal energies from the Hessian city at the crossroads of Germany.
French death/thrash metal band from Toulon on the Mediterranean, formed in 2018. They deliver ritualistic death-thrash from the Provençal naval port.
Albanian melodic black/death metal act from Tirana, formed in 2021, striving to bring a distinctly Albanian character to extreme metal. Their demo material blends tremolo-picked melodies with death metal aggression.
German thrash/death/black metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2010. They draw from three extreme metal traditions for a wide-ranging, vengeance-fueled assault.
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