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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Melodic death metal band from Finland, formed in 2015. They craft melodic yet intense death metal in the Finnish tradition.
Death metal act from Pershotravensk in the Dnipropetrovsk region, formed in 2025. Corium — named after the molten nuclear fuel material — channels apocalyptic themes through death metal from central Ukraine.
Petaluma's Cormorant blend black and death metal with folk textures and progressive ambition across sweeping, literary-minded albums. They are one of the most ambitious DIY metal acts in the American underground.
Death-groove act from the Pabianice and Łódź area in central Poland, active since 2011. Cornada — Spanish for 'goring' — merges death metal weight with groove-driven rhythms.
Salt Lake City act fusing melodic death metal sensibilities with thrash aggression and brutal death metal weight. Their sound is fast, hook-laden, and relentlessly intense.
Death-thrash metal band from France, active since 2005. They deliver aggressive death-thrash metal with two decades of experience.
Aurora, Illinois outfit blending doom and traditional heavy metal into crushing, atmosphere-laden compositions. Expect thick riffs and a dark, vintage heaviness.
Melodic death metal act from Istanbul, active since 2015. Corona Borealis — named after the northern crown constellation — delivers hook-driven extreme metal from Turkey's largest city.
Death metal band from the Marchfeld region of Austria, active since 2016. They bring heavy, unrelenting death metal from the flatlands east of Vienna with a focus on brutality and groove.
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