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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Virginia Beach's Coldcocked specializes in the punishing low-end crush of slam death metal, pairing guttural vocal extremity with breakdowns designed to level venues and test the structural integrity of stage floors.
Melodic blackened death metal act from Rostov-on-Don, active since 2016. Colder than Moon delivers melody-infused extreme metal from the southern Russian steppe.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Barcelos, northern Portugal, formed in 2024. Coldfear blends melodic extremity with hardcore intensity from the Minho region.
Death metal act from Oslo, formed in 2020. Coldflesh brings chilling death metal to the Norwegian capital's extreme underground.
Progressive death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2007. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity from the French capital.
Death-doom-sludge band from Trier, Germany, formed in 2021. They layer death metal aggression over crushing doom and sludge foundations from Germany's oldest city.
Dublin death metal band active since 2004, one of the longer-running acts in the Irish extreme metal scene. Coldwar has spent two decades delivering unrelenting death metal from the Irish capital.
Death metal band from Tornio on the Swedish border, Finland, active since 2012. They deliver death metal from the northernmost reaches of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Örebro death metal act active since 2006, delivering relentless brutality from central Sweden. Their two decades of grinding extremity speak to a steadfast commitment to the death metal craft.
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