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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Apocalypse (2023)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2015)
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Death, doom, gothic, and symphonic metal band from Paris, France active since 2008. They craft a rich, genre-spanning sound blending extremity with orchestral beauty.
Death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland formed in 2019. They bring a diverse blend of death metal styles from southwestern Finland.
Part of Poland's relentlessly productive underground, this act channels black metal and death metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2016, based in Warsaw, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Brutal death metal act from Rechitsa, Belarus, delivering punishing extremity since 2000 as one of the country's longest-running bands in the genre. Their quarter-century of activity reflects deep commitment to death metal's most uncompromising forms.
Denver's Evulsion emerged in 2020 as a death-thrash hybrid, fusing the aggressive velocity of thrash metal with the deeper darkness and tonal weight of death metal. Rooted in the Mile High City's increasingly vibrant extreme metal community, their sound channels high-altitude intensity into riff-driven, forward-moving aggression.
A product of the birthplace of heavy metal itself, this Manchester-based death metal and thrash metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2013, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Death/groove metal act from Aachen, Germany, with roots stretching back to 1980, making them one of the oldest metal bands in the country. Their four-decade career represents an extraordinary longevity in the German extreme metal underground.
Death metal act from Brussels, Belgium, delivering visceral, unrelenting extremity since 2012. Their approach channels the genre's foundational principles of guttural heaviness and rhythmic punishment from Belgium's capital city.
Saint Petersburg-based death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore act, active since 2014 delivering HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
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