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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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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 band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2021. Their Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal brings sweeping guitar harmonies and aggressive rhythms to the Swabian metal scene.
Philadelphia's Hellegryre plant blackened death metal in the fertile underground soil of one of America's oldest cities, drawing on the Eastern Seaboard's long legacy of extreme music. Since 2020, their sound has pushed toward the violent convergence of both traditions.
A relentless thrash/death/black metal entity from Stoke-on-Trent, contributing to the british underground since 2019. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Death/thrash metal band from Kassel, Germany, active since 2011. Their punishing crossover of death and thrash metal delivers relentless extremity from the heart of Hesse.
Hellfound is a groove/death/thrash metal band from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, formed in 2017. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Hellfox is a gothic/melodic death metal band from Bergamo, Italy, active since 2011 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Technical brutal death metal band from Vigo/Camarinas, Spain, active since 2010. Their technically demanding approach pushes death metal to its most extreme limits from the Galician coast.
Drawing from Helsinki's metal heritage, this black/death metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2024. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Death metal band from Grefrath, Germany, formed in 2022. Their crushing approach channels the genre's most brutal traditions from the Lower Rhine region of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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