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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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Death metal band from Reims, France, formed in 2020. They deliver crushing death metal from the Champagne capital.
Melodic death metal act from Rome, formed in 2021. Carna — named after the Roman goddess of vital organs — delivers melody-driven death metal from the Italian capital.
Progressive death metal act from Ankara, Turkey, active since 2015. Carnac delivers technically ambitious extreme metal from the Turkish capital.
Columbia, South Carolina heavy metal veterans formed in 1990, representing the enduring spirit of the South Carolina underground during the genre's early-90s regional boom.
New Jersey death metal band formed in 1990 in South Plainfield, part of the fertile early-90s mid-Atlantic death metal scene that produced some of the genre's most aggressive regional acts.
Melodic death metal band from Nynäshamn south of Stockholm, active since 2013. Carnage Cafe serves up melodeath in the classic Swedish tradition.
Melodic death metal band from Oettingen in Bayern, Germany, formed in 2015. They blend the technical precision of death metal with melodic guitar harmonies and dynamic songwriting.
Carnage Hell is an independent death metal band from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The band explores themes of war, death, and destruction, and distributes their music through Bandcamp.
Norman, Oklahoma death metal and deathcore band delivering a punishing combination of old-school death metal brutality and modern breakdowns, honed through over a decade in the Oklahoma underground.
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