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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Punishing brutal death metal from Lytham St. Annes, formed in 2015. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Czech death/thrash metal band from Prague, formed in 2014, featuring a four-piece lineup of vocals, guitar, bass, and drums. Their album Descent into Madness packs six tracks of relentless death-thrash with old-school crossover influences.
Ferocious Thrash Metal / Crossover from Austin.
Kent-based death/sludge metal act active since 2024, combining death metal's aggressive vocals and riffing with sludge's corrosive, feedback-drenched heaviness. Their sound inhabits the grimy intersection where both genres collide at maximum weight.
Saratov-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2010. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
Emerging in 2019 from Örsundsbro, 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 black/death metal band from Annaberg-Buchholz in the Erzgebirge, formed in 2016. They merge black and death metal into a blood-frenzy of extremity from the Saxon mountains.
German black/death/thrash metal band from Rostock and Kröpelin, formed in 2019. They draw from three extreme metal pillars for a devastating, multi-pronged attack from the Baltic coast.
German death metal and grindcore band from Wiesbaden, active since 2001. With over two decades of grinding extremity, they are a veteran Hessian death-grind outfit.
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