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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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New Jersey doom/death/thrash metal band from Monmouth County, folding all three of heavy metal's most crushing strains into a single sound since 2017.
Melodic death metal act from Novosibirsk, active since 2016. Cain the Whaler delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Siberian capital.
Death-doom act from Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East, formed in 2017. Cain Will Rise merges death metal brutality with doom pacing from the Amur River city near the Chinese border.
Indianapolis black/death/doom metal band formed in 2020, navigating the suffocating overlap of three of extreme metal's darkest subgenres.
Caixão is a black/death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, operating in the vein of Sarcófago, Hellhammer, Bathory, and Sodom with lyrical themes of death, anti-Christianity, and anti-cosmic Satanism. The band released the demo "Black Coffin Entities" and has issued further material including splits and a full-length album, "Herakles / Melqart," released on vinyl through Nuclear War Now! Productions in January 2025. They are currently signed to Diabolous Productions.
Progressive death metal band from Finland, formed in 2016. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They channel a punishing, blast-beat-driven assault that merges grind intensity with guttural death metal extremity.
Relentless Experimental Death / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Melodic death metal band from the San Diego area, active since 2012 and part of the South Bay scene that has long cultivated both heavy and melodic extremes.
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