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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Morgantown, West Virginia black/death act Christ Slaughter channel Appalachian isolation into raw, hostile metal that draws from both traditions without fully committing to either. Underground and uncompromising.
Death-doom act from Elbląg on Poland's Baltic coast, active since 2015. Christ's Flesh merges crushing death metal with plodding doom pacing.
Denver brutal death metal outfit Christectomy delivers pulverizing low-end riffs and blast-heavy compositions rooted firmly in the gore-drenched traditions of the genre. Their sound favors maximum density and surgical brutality over melodic concession.
Black-death metal band from Stafford, England, active since 2013. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the Staffordshire heartland.
Death-grind-thrash act from Radom, central Poland, formed in 2017. Christhole delivers a volatile mix of extreme subgenres.
Symphonic blackened death metal band from Lábatlan, Hungary, one of the country's veteran extreme acts with origins dating to 1996. Christian Epidemic has spent nearly three decades blending orchestral bombast with blasphemous aggression.
Progressive deathcore act from Konin in Greater Poland, formed in 2024. Christian Woochuck blends technical ambition with crushing breakdowns.
Louisville black/death hybrid Christlier fuses the caustic atmosphere of black metal with death metal's brutality into a dense, unrelenting sound. Their music draws from Kentucky's historically fertile underground extreme metal community.
Melodic death metal band from Argos in the Peloponnese, Greece, formed in 2021. They craft melodic death metal from one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
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