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Featured Album
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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Symphonic melodic blackened death metal act from Jönköping, active since 2014. Crimson Moonlight delivers epic, multi-layered extreme metal from the Småland highlands.
Death-thrash metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from the cultural capital of Saxony.
Tampa melodic death and metalcore band drawing from Florida's storied death metal legacy while incorporating melodic hooks and metalcore dynamics into their ferocious sound.
Northwestern Pennsylvania death metal and deathcore act pairing pulverizing breakdowns with melodic death metal sweep and intricate riffing honed in the underground Pennsylvania scene.
Haverhill, Massachusetts death-thrash band channeling the Northeast's underground extremity through punishing riffs, aggressive tempos, and a raw, unpolished production ethic.
Minneapolis death-thrash band that spent the early '90s fusing brutal death metal aggression with thrash's propulsive energy, leaving behind a fierce legacy in Minnesota's underground.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Moscow, active since 2014. CrimSun blends melodic hooks with modern extreme metal from the Russian capital.
Ashtabula, Ohio death-thrash outfit channeling the industrial edge of the Rust Belt into their music — brutal, fast, and direct, with little patience for polish or pretense.
Death metal act from Pordenone in Friuli, formed in 2020. Criogenesi — Italian for 'cryogenesis' — brings icy death metal to northeastern Italy.
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