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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 metal out of the remote Upper Peninsula town of Manistique, Michigan, where isolation apparently breeds a particularly unadorned and unrelenting approach to the genre, formed in 2024.
Melodic death metal band from Paris, France active since 2014. Their sound channels Gothenburg-influenced melodeath from the French capital.
Icon of Evil is a death metal band from Wrocław, Poland, active since 2010 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Icon of Hyemes is a death metal band from Bologna, Italy, active since 2014 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Icon of Sin is a symphonic/melodic death metal band from Alessandria, Italy, active since 2013 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Wisconsin thrash/death metallers from Silver Lake who have been tearing through the rural Midwest since 2016, fusing the neck-snapping momentum of thrash with the malevolent texture of death metal.
Kalamazoo death metal outfit active since 2016, drawing on the Great Lakes' rusted industrial character to fuel a downtuned, unsparing assault that follows no trend and answers to no one.
Icons of Brutality is a death metal band from Hoogeveen, Netherlands, active since 2013 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Atlanta's melodic death/black metal hybrid emerged in 2021 with a sound split between soaring melodic hooks and outright blackened hostility — the South's answer to the Gothenburg-Dissection axis.
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