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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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Brutal death-grindcore band from Strasbourg, France, active since 2013. They deliver punishing, abrasive extremity from the Alsatian capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Aschaffenburg, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver chaotic, abrasive extremity from the Franconian edge of Bavaria.
Melodic death-groove metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2012. They blend melodic death metal harmonies with heavy grooves from northern Finland.
Aurora, IL death/thrash act Clocktower bring a hard-hitting, no-nonsense approach to classic extreme metal, rooted in the long tradition of Chicago-area underground metal. Their music is tight, aggressive, and built around the kind of riff-forward songwriting that defined American thrash and death in their early years.
Melodic death-doom metal band from Wolframs-Eschenbach, Germany, formed in 2023. They merge melancholic melodies with the crushing weight of death-doom from the Franconian heartland.
Gothenburg death metal project launched in 2024, adding to the city's seemingly inexhaustible wellspring of extreme metal. Their punishing approach continues the tradition that made Gothenburg a global death metal capital.
Death metal band from the Avignon/Marseille area of Provence, France, active since 2009. They deliver death metal from the sun-baked south of France.
Melodic death/groove metal act from the small Värmland town of Hagfors, formed in 2018 and weaving melody through rhythmic heaviness. Their blend of accessibility and aggression draws from both Scandinavian melodeath and modern groove metal.
Atlanta's Clot emerged from the pandemic-era underground in 2022, channeling frustration into a grinding blend of grindcore, death metal, and powerviolence. Their debut LP Grief Tethers on Terminus Hate City Records establishes them as one of the city's most vicious new acts.
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