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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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German death/thrash metal band from Cottbus in Brandenburg, formed in 2015. They deliver death-thrash extremity from the Lusatian lowlands.
Moscow-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2022, 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.
Death metal outfit from Oslo, formed in 2016. 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-grind act from Modena, formed in 2024. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
Finnish death/thrash metal and crossover band from Helsinki, formed in 2015. They serve spoonful after spoonful of death-thrash crossover from the capital.
Death metal band from Shumen, Bulgaria, formed in 2021. They channel unrelenting death metal from northeastern Bulgaria.
Progressive death metal outfit from Astrakhan, formed in 2014. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Death/thrash metal band from Saint-Avold in the Moselle department of northeastern France, active since 2016. Their album Reasons to Go Insane pairs melodic sensibilities with aggressive thrash instrumentation and dark lyrical themes.
Since 2020, this Dutch thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Kaatsheuvel. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
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