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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Toruń-based black metal and death metal act channels frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Active since 2014, blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Laying down tracks since 2024, this Fiorenzuola D'Arda (Piacenza) Death Metal and Melodic Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this death metal, melodic death metal, and thrash metal act from Mariestad traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 1994, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
From the coalfields of Beckley, West Virginia, Eternal Black bring a melodic black and death metal attack shaped by the mountains and darkness of Appalachia. Active since 2015, they carry the rawness of their surroundings into every recording.
Columbus, Ohio's Eternal Bloodshed tear through blackened death and thrash with the all-or-nothing intensity that has come to define the city's underground in recent years. Founded in 2020, they waste nothing on atmosphere when riff violence will do.
Formed in 2023, this Kyiv Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, and Symphonic Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Melodic death/gothic metal band from Bocșa in the Banat region of western Romania, formed in 2023. Their sound blends melodic death metal with gothic atmospherics from one of Romania's smaller Carpathian towns.
Death/thrash metal band from Lucerne, Switzerland, delivering relentless, high-speed aggression since 2013. Their uncompromising name captures the permanence and finality of their extreme metal assault.
Thrash/death metal act from Ahnatal in Hesse, Germany, delivering relentless aggression since 2018. Their name captures the unending deterioration at the core of their crossover extreme metal sound.
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