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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Grindcore Album
Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Colossal Death God packs deathcore, mathcore, and metalcore into a single careening vehicle — technically demanding and relentlessly heavy, a band that seems to actively enjoy making their music difficult to predict.
Richmond, Virginia's Colossal Wreck plays death-infused thrash with the direct, no-nonsense approach typical of the Richmond scene — a city that consistently produces metal with more grit than polish.
Progressive death-groove act from Porto, active since 2012. Colosso has earned recognition for their technically ambitious, genre-crossing extreme metal from northern Portugal.
Brutal death metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2015. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from Merseyside.
Black-death-sludge metal band from Vichy, France, formed in 2021. They blend extreme metal darkness with sludge weight from the Auvergne spa town.
Pittsburgh technical deathcore act Coltcrusher bring surgical precision to their breakdowns, fusing angular tech-death riffing with deathcore brutality that hits like a freight train. Their sound is intricate but never loses its menace.
Newport, Minnesota's Colton Schorn is a death metal solo project delivering unadorned, grim heaviness from the American Midwest. Raw and direct, the project channels old-school death metal in a personal, stripped-down format.
Charlotte, NC's Columns grind through death metal with a ferocity and economy that leaves little room to breathe. Short bursts of controlled violence are their calling card in the Carolina underground.
Progressive death metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2024. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity.
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