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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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Death metal outfit from Novorossiysk, formed in 2022. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Death/black metal band from Trachslau, Switzerland, active since 2015. They merge death and black metal in the shadow of the Swiss Alps.
Czech black/death/doom metal band from Volyně, formed in 2021. They weave together the aggression of black and death metal with doom metal's crushing weight for a multi-layered extreme metal sound.
French death metal band from Lille, formed in 2020. They deliver chaotic death metal from the capital of northern France.
Emerging in 2017 from Reggio di Calabria, 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 brutal death metal and grindcore band from Stuttgart, formed in 2018. They deliver scalding blasts of brutal death-grind extremity.
Spanish death metal band from A Coruña in Galicia, formed in 2012. They deliver brutal death metal from the Atlantic coast of northwestern Spain.
German death metal band from Oldenburg. They play crushing death metal from the North German flatlands of Lower Saxony.
Pula-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2002, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
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