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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Death metal band from Kokkola in Central Ostrobothnia, active since 2010 and delivering over a decade of decomposition-themed brutality. Their name meaning "compost" signals the rotting, organic decay at the heart of their death metal.
Laying down tracks since 2022, this Istanbul Death Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within Turkey's bridge between Eastern and Western metal traditions speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Pagan black/melodic death metal band from Bilbao in the Basque Country, active since 2012 and weaving Basque pagan themes into extreme metal. Their Basque-rooted project draws on the region's pre-Christian heritage for thematic and musical inspiration.
Band from Ciudad Real/Miguelturra that evolved from thrash metal origins in 2017 into progressive death/thrash territory. Their artistic growth has expanded their sound from straightforward aggression into more technically ambitious compositions.
Original Scandinavian death metal masters from Koge, Denmark, active since the early 1990s and recently revived in 2018 with their album Sad Plight of Lucifer mixed by Tue Madsen. Their groove-laden death metal draws comparisons to Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, and Obituary across a career spanning three decades.
New Orleans-based Konstricted blends death metal, groove metal, and deathcore in a city that has long elevated heavy music to an art form. Active since 2016, they absorb the bayou city's tradition of hypnotic rhythmic power and combine it with modern extremity and bone-crushing breakdowns.
Thrash/death metal band from Bilbao in the Basque Country, active since 2006 and delivering nearly two decades of extreme metal from Spain's industrial north. Their longevity marks them as pillars of the Basque extreme metal scene.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Châtillon (Aosta)-based death metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2015, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
All-female death/doom metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 2017 and delivering crushing, glacially paced compositions. Their sound pairs death metal's guttural ferocity with doom's monolithic weight, earning them recognition across the European underground.
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