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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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Death/doom outfit from Sweden, formed in 2022. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
German melodic death metal band from Wangen im Allgäu, formed in 2022. They craft melodic death metal from the Alpine foothills of the Allgäu region.
Spanish progressive death metal and metalcore band from Castalla in Alicante province, formed in 2015. They push death metal into progressive territory with metalcore elements.
Boto não é Golfinho was a death metal and grindcore band from Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, active until their 2022 split-up. The band played fast, abrasive extreme metal in the noisecore tradition, releasing the album "Parlamentáveis" in March 2022, a nine-track record with a combined runtime of just over ten minutes.
Emerging in 2014 from Katowice, 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 and grindcore project formed in 2024. They merge three strands of extreme metal into a toxic sonic assault.
Bryansk-based doom metal act active since 2023, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2019. They deliver bound and driven melodic death metal from the Finnish capital.
Stoke-on-Trent-based deathcore act active since 2020, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
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