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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Seattle death metal act formed in 2010, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's rich underground scene to deliver straightforward, riff-driven extremity with consistent dedication to the genre's core values.
Death metal band from Maaseik, Belgium, active since 2017, whose sound evolved from straightforward death metal in their early work toward a more melodic death metal direction. They represent the extreme metal scene from Belgium's easternmost reaches near the Dutch border.
Death-thrash metal band from Frederikshavn in northern Jutland, Denmark, formed in 2020. They merge death metal aggression with thrash metal speed from Denmark's northernmost port city.
Death-groove-thrash metal band from Murcia, Spain, active since 2013. They blend heavy grooves with death-thrash aggression from the southeastern Mediterranean coast.
Melodic black-death metal band from Murcia, Spain, formed in 2014. They weave melodic elements through blackened death metal from southeastern Spain.
Death metal band from Karvina in the Silesian region of Czech Republic, formed in 2013. They channel dark aggression through a death metal lens shaped by the industrial landscape of their homeland.
Hartford death metal band formed in 2019, channeling the bleak, industrial edge of Connecticut's former manufacturing centers into dense, punishing death metal.
Toledo death metal act delivering dense, grinding brutality that thrives in the industrial Midwest, with a straight-ahead approach to death metal's heaviest and most unrelenting characteristics.
Death-thrash band from Warsaw, active since 2016. Carrion Breed channels aggressive extreme metal from the Polish capital.
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