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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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New Orleans death metal act drawing on the city's murky musical underbelly, channeling raw brutality through churning riffs and guttural vocal assaults rooted in the swamp.
Blackened death metal project from Moscow, formed in 2025. Crimson Crown channels dark aggression from the Russian capital.
Melodic death metal band from Alaharma, Finland, active since 2013. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Ostrobothnian countryside.
Los Angeles speed and thrash metal band trading in blistering tempos, razor-edged riffwork, and a relentless forward momentum deeply rooted in the California metal underground.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Dessel, Belgium, active since 2005 with a catalog spanning over five releases. Their 2013 album 'Downpours of Disapproval' features eleven tracks blending death metal, deathcore, and metalcore influences.
Death-groove metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2020. They blend death metal aggression with heavy grooves from the French capital.
Genre-crossing extreme metal band from Herford, Germany, formed in 2019. Crimson Glow blend black metal, death metal, melodic death metal, and thrash into a diverse, aggressive sound.
La Mesa, California death-thrash band fusing the technical brutality of death metal with thrash's street-level aggression, resulting in a relentless and uncompromising assault.
'The Luster of Pandemonium' (2005) is considered one of the most unrelentingly technical death metal albums ever recorded. Criminally obscure, the band dissolved shortly after.
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