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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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Death metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2021. Their savage approach to the genre brings fresh brutality to the Saxon death metal underground.
Death metal band from Porrentruy, Switzerland, formed in 2025. A fresh addition to the Swiss extreme metal underground, they deliver crushing death metal from the Jura region.
Fort Lauderdale veterans HatePlow have been a fixture of Florida's death metal scene since 1998, carrying the legacy of the state's most uncompromising sonic tradition through decades of punishing output.
From Mikkeli in Finland, this death metal act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2023. Heavy, downtuned riffing and relentless percussion drive their compositions.
Melodic Death/Thrash Metal/Metalcore outfit rooted in Norrköping / Ljungsbro, channeling raw underground intensity since 2006. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Hateseeder is a brutal death metal band from Bari, Italy, formed in 2019. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Melodic death metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2015. Their polished sound channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Spanish capital.
Hattiesburg's Hateslave mangle death metal, thrash, and punk into a gritty, aggressive hybrid that sounds like Mississippi resentment distilled into riffs — raw, confrontational, and unbothered since 2022.
HateSower is a technical death/black metal band from Caserta, Italy, formed in 2025. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
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