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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Santa Cruz, California's Kavalkade marry melodic death metal's lead-driven drama to metalcore's rhythmic punch, carving out a sound with both melodic ambition and heavy impact since their 2022 formation.
Death metal/crust punk band from Ulm in Baden-Wurttemberg, formed in 2025 and fusing death metal's guttural intensity with crust's raw, D-beat-driven energy. Their crossover approach channels punk's immediacy through extreme metal's heaviness.
Hammond, Louisiana's Kavyk have been perfecting their brand of blackened death metal since 2015, conjuring a suffocating atmosphere that feels unmistakably rooted in the damp heat of the Deep South.
Meriden, Connecticut death metal outfit Kayotik have been refining a hard-hitting approach to the genre since 2016 — straightforward, brutal, and built on the fundamentals that make death metal work.
Atmospheric death metal band from Nantes, formed in 2020 and delivering immersive, sonically dense compositions from western France. Their German-emperor name adds imperial gravitas to their atmospheric extremity.
When Kayzen emerged in 2023 from Warsaw, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal, gothic metal, and melodic death metal — all punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Boston's Kazmi draw from an unusually wide arsenal — melodic death, thrash, metalcore — blending these into a hybrid sound that captures the ambition of the city's dense and competitive extreme metal scene since 2016.
Death metal band spanning Adana, Giresun, and Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2025. Their playfully named project delivers death metal from across three Turkish cities.
Wielding death metal and thrash metal as their weapon, this Russian outfit from Ufa has been refining their craft since 2022. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with fierce commitment.
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