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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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Ohio thrash/death metal band dealing in the aggressive overlap of thrash riffing and death metal intensity before splitting up.
Jacksonville progressive death metal act bringing technical ambition and melodic complexity to the Florida death metal tradition.
Lake Charles, Louisiana thrash/death crossover band blending genre aggression with comedic and violent lyrical themes before calling it quits.
Maine death metal outfit active in the mid-to-late 1990s on Rattle Snake Records, playing straightforward death metal before disbanding — distinct from the Minnesota thrash act of the same name.
Melodic death metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, active since 2013. They craft melodic yet intense death metal from the Finnish lake district.
Death-thrash band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2020. Capulus channels aggressive riffing and relentless energy rooted in the Irish capital's thriving metal scene.
Brutal death-deathcore act from the Odessa region, formed in 2024. Carabid — named after predatory ground beetles — delivers crushing extremity from southern Ukraine.
Wichita, Kansas act formed in 2014 fusing melodic death metal with groove metal and deathcore, delivering aggressive riffing tempered by melodic hooks.
Blackened death metal act from Fossano in Cuneo province, Piedmont, formed in 2019. Caradhras — named after the Tolkien mountain — conjures dark, epic extreme metal.
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