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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Black, death, and progressive metal band from Strasbourg, France formed in 2019. They blend extreme metal intensity with progressive ambition from the Alsatian capital.
Seattle's Elks Blood have been grinding out death/thrash since 2010 with the Pacific Northwest's characteristic intensity — unrelenting riff patterns, furious tempos, and a sound that owes equal debts to both parent genres.
Mansfield's Ellimist bring a cerebral edge to death metal, layering progressive architecture over brutal foundations — songs that shift and evolve in ways that reward close listening rather than just overwhelm with raw force.
Des Moines' Elliot Klimowski operates as a one-person melodic death metal entity, crafting music that finds genuine feeling within the genre's aggressive framework — a solo project with the compositional ambition of a full band.
Devastating Progressive / Doom / Death Metal from Dallas.
Death metal and melodic death metal band from Kajaani in northern Finland, formed in 2021. They forge extreme metal from one of Finland's more remote northern cities.
Death metal act from Almendralejo in Extremadura, southwestern Spain, delivering guttural extremity since 2008. Their Spanish name, meaning "The Messiah," provides an ironic counterpoint to the blasphemous aggression of their death metal.
Rovigo-based avant-garde metal, death metal, and progressive metal act, active since 2010 delivering technical virtuosity in service of expansive, cinematic narratives. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Doom/black/death metal project from Germany, merging three of extreme metal's heaviest subgenres since 2016. Their theologically charged name reflects the spiritual weight of their multi-layered extreme metal approach.
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