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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/black metal band from Leon, Spain, active since 2008. Their fierce blend of death and black metal aggression comes from the historic medieval kingdom's capital.
Forged in Viareggio (Lucca)'s metal community, this death/thrash metal act channels raw aggression since 2013. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
Heretique is a thrash/black/death metal band from Gliwice, Poland, formed in 2009. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Death groove metal act from Portishead near Bristol, active since 2020. Their location-inspired name connects them to a town famous for trip-hop while they deliver crushing groove-laden death metal.
Blackened death metal project from Dilbeek/Schepdaal, Belgium, formed in 2015. Their technically proficient approach fuses the blast-beat fury of black metal with the crushing weight of death metal in a relentless sonic assault.
Fresno's Heritage of Rebellion arrived in 2023 with death metal grounded in the Central Valley's blue-collar discontent — straightforward in its violence, unpretentious in its execution, and built to be played loud. A band that earns the defiance in their name.
Progressive death/black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2020. Their complex compositions merge the brutality of death and black metal with progressive structures and unconventional arrangements.
Gothic/melodic death metal band from Menden, Germany, active since 2004. Two decades of combining gothic atmosphere with melodic death metal aggression have made them a distinctive voice in the Sauerland metal scene.
Burlington, North Carolina's Hermaeus Mora began as an atmospheric black and death metal act in 2015 before evolving toward metalcore, always guided by a cinematic heaviness and an appetite for transformation. Named for the Daedric Prince of forbidden knowledge, they've pursued their own sonic secrets across several years of restless genre movement.
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