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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Denver death metal band dealing in guttural, unrefined brutality from the Colorado underground. Cyclonusfilth strips death metal down to its most primal and filthy core.
Black-death metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2020. They fuse extreme metal darkness from the Granite City.
Death metal band from Chatellerault in the Vienne, France, active since 2008. They deliver crushing death metal from the central-western French countryside.
Experimental technical death metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of innovative activity, Cyclotron push death metal boundaries through avant-garde structures and technical virtuosity.
Razor-sharp Melodic Death / Thrash Metal from Dallas.
Death-thrash band from Poznań, formed in 2018. Cyklon — Polish spelling of 'cyclone' — delivers destructive extreme metal from Greater Poland.
Utica, New York band merging progressive metal's technical ambition with the brutality of death metal. Cymatics draws on the science of sound and vibration as conceptual framework, building complex compositions from intricate rhythms and heavy riff structures.
Death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing death metal from the Finnish capital.
Progressive death metal act from Piacenza, active since 2013. Cyneris blends technical complexity with death metal heaviness from Emilia-Romagna.
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