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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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Death/Thrash Metal force from Reggio Emilia/Modena, crushing and relentless since 2020. Punishing compositions and guttural fury form the core of their sound.
Herds is a black/death/doom metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 2009. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Melodic death metal band from Bonn, Germany, active since 2015. Their polished sound delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the former capital on the Rhine.
Herege is a death metal/grindcore band from Iúna, Espírito Santo, Brazil, formed in 2016. Their debut album Terra Morta, released in 2016 through Cemitério Records and Cold Art Industry, packs 18 tracks of aggressive grind drawing on influences like Napalm Death, Terrorizer, and Autopsy. The band features Davi Ambrósio on bass and vocals, Everton Oliveira on guitar and vocals, and Juliano Freitas on drums.
Black/death metal act from Verviers, Belgium, active since 2013. Their savage blend of black and death metal channels the rawer side of Belgian extreme music with unrelenting ferocity.
Melodic death/black metal project from Germany, formed in 2023. Their fierce blend of melodic precision and black/death metal aggression brings a fresh voice to the German extreme underground.
Fierce technical death metal project from Schio (Vicenza), carving a path through Italy's underground since 2011. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Drawing from Toulouse's metal heritage, this death metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2012. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Deathcore/melodic black metal band from Hof, Germany, active since 2017. Their unusual fusion of deathcore breakdowns and melodic black metal creates a distinctively intense crossover from Upper Franconia.
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