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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Salt Lake City's Call of Madness fuse melodic death and traditional heavy metal into a dynamic sound that has been active since 2016, balancing brutality with accessible hooks.
A short-lived Philadelphia death/doom project, Call of Pripyat channeled sorrow, bleakness, and apocalyptic dread into crushing compositions before splitting up in 2022.
Melodic death metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2019. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the West Country.
Melodic death metal band from Preston, England, formed in 2015. They deliver melodic, dynamic death metal from Lancashire.
Melodic death metal outfit from Coachella, California, Call Upon Your Gods have been honing their hook-laden yet aggressive approach since forming in 2017.
Gothic death metal act from Dębica in southeastern Poland, active since 2007. Callahan has spent nearly two decades crafting dark, atmospheric extreme metal from Podkarpacie.
German melodic death metal band active since 1988. As one of the earliest German death metal acts, Callider are pioneers who helped establish the genre in the country's metal landscape.
Melodic death metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2015. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Finnish lake district.
A death/thrash act from North Carolina, Calling Hour formed in 2007 and operated as an independent underground project.
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