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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Brutal death metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2018. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Death-sludge-thrash metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2012. They blend three aggressive genres into a fierce, heavy assault from Finland's third-largest city.
Evansville, Indiana blackened death metal band steeped in horror and occult themes, drawing influence from early Possessed, Bathory, and old Morbid Angel.
Death metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing death metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
St. Louis experimental death metal and grindcore band leaning into bizarre humor and grotesque absurdity, mixing blasting grind violence with oddball genre detours.
Melodic death-black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. They weave melodic elements through blackened death metal from the Finnish capital.
Technical death metal band from Belgium, formed in 2023, blending intricate riffing with groovy slam passages. Their debut 'Validation Through Suffering' explores a sci-fi narrative of cosmic exploitation across eight compositions, produced by Christian Donaldson.
Death metal band from Herten in the Ruhr area, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver old-school death metal ferocity from the industrial heartland of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Death metal and grindcore band from Aachen, Germany, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Cause of Divorce grind out chaotic extremity from the westernmost city in Germany.
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