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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-thrash metal band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, formed in 2022. They merge death metal aggression with thrash speed from the northern Spanish coast.
Death-thrash act from the Treviso and Venice area, active since 2008. Cassandra's Cyndrom has spent over fifteen years delivering aggressive extreme metal from the Veneto region.
Death metal and grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, emerging in 2025. They deliver chaotic grinding extremity from the Catalan scene.
Sacramento act blending technical death metal with progressive structures and thrash-driven aggression, channeling complex rhythmic shifts into a sound that feels both cerebral and visceral.
Cast Adrift from Dallas, NC merge melodic death metal's hook-forward songwriting with metalcore's rhythmic punch, leaning hard into dual-guitar melody over breakdowns.
Connecticut's Cast in Blood occupy the cross-section of melodic death and metalcore, favoring driving tempos and clean-to-harsh vocal contrast over the more abrasive end of the death metal spectrum.
Madison's Cast in Fire play straightforward death metal rooted in mid-tempo brutality and downtuned riffwork, with no frills — just dense, punishing heaviness delivered with workmanlike precision.
Baltimore's Cast upon the World fuse death metal's guttural intensity with deathcore's structural breakdowns, carving out a sound centered on abrupt tempo drops and suffocating low-end density.
Lakeland, FL's Castaway draw on both straightforward death metal and its melodic Scandinavian derivatives, building songs around tightly wound riff progressions and moments of atmospheric lead work.
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