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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Melodic death metal and deathcore act from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2022, blending melodic precision with crushing breakdowns. Their paradoxical name merges paradise with tyranny, capturing the tension between beauty and aggression in their sound.
Czech metal act from Tynec nad Labem that evolved from melodic death metal origins toward deathcore since their 2022 formation. Their stylistic shift reflects the broader evolution of modern extreme metal toward breakdown-heavy, rhythmically punishing territory.
In existence since 2011, this Moscow Death Metal, Folk Metal, and Melodic Death Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Death/doom metal band from Magenta, France formed in 2018. They channel mournful heaviness from the Ile-de-France region.
Straddling the line between death metal and technical death metal, this British actfrom Brighton fuses HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2011, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
New Mexico's Emaciated have been working death metal's most uncompromising terrain since 2022 — lean, ugly, and intentional, with a name that telegraphs exactly where the sound lives.
New York's Emaciated strip death metal back to its core ugliness — no melody, no embellishment, just the rot at the genre's center delivered without apology.
Arizona's Emaciated Amalgamation fuse brutal death metal and grindcore into something even more compressed and violent than either genre alone, packing maximum destruction into the shortest possible runtime.
Battle Creek death metal newcomers Emaciated Remains arrived in 2025 with an uncompromising focus on putrefaction and decay. Raw and unapologetic, they carry the old-school spirit of Midwestern death into modern territory.
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