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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Lesser Poland-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2024, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Punishing brutal death metal from Dnipro, formed in 2014. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Death/doom outfit from the United Kingdom, formed in 2021. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Valdobbiadene (Treviso)-based melodic death/thrash metal act active since 2020, combining the aggression of both genres with harmonized guitar leads and dynamic songwriting. Their sound bridges the gap between Gothenburg-style melody and thrash metal's riff-driven intensity.
Spanish technical death metal band from Madrid, formed in 2014. They deliver surgically precise technical death metal from the Spanish capital.
Long-running thrash/death metal act from Campbon in western France, active since 2003. Over two decades they have honed a crossover sound blending thrash metal's velocity with death metal's heaviness.
Death metal outfit from Glasgow, 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.
Parisian death/groove metal outfit formed in 2019, incorporating metalcore breakdowns into their dense, rhythmic attack. They represent the younger generation of the French extreme metal scene.
Jablonica-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2023, 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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