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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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Symphonic melodic death-power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2018. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian death metal with symphonic orchestration and power metal hooks.
Richland, Washington's Chronicler of Ardul weaves symphonic orchestration into black and death metal to construct expansive, fantastical compositions. Their music reaches for the epic and the cinematic within extreme metal's structural framework.
Seattle brutal death metal band Chronicynic channels the Pacific Northwest underground into dense, pulverizing compositions built on guttural vocals and downtuned riff attacks. Their sound sits squarely in the relentless end of the brutal death metal spectrum.
Melodic death-thrash band from Sosnowiec in Upper Silesia, active since 2012. Chronix delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Dąbrowa Basin.
Death metal act from Ruma in Vojvodina, formed in 2023. Chronogoria delivers crushing death metal from the Srem district of northern Serbia.
Melodic death metal act from Budapest, formed in 2022. Chronolit delivers hook-driven extreme metal with strong melodic sensibilities.
Nashville black/death metal act Chronometris fuses the atmospheric frost of black metal with death metal's rhythmic brutality into a cohesive extreme sound. Their presence in Nashville highlights the city's quietly growing underground metal community.
Death metal act from the Ängelholm and Malmö area in Skåne, formed in 2018. Chronophobia — fear of time — delivers death metal from southern Sweden.
Death metal project launched in 2024, channeling warlike aggression through punishing sonic assaults. Their combative name matches a sound built on relentless extremity.
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