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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Death metal and grindcore three-piece from Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, formed in 2023 from members of Black Skies Burn, Public Execution, Of Corpse, and Seidrblot. Their releases Unsolicited Indoctrination and Chop the Cop channel anti-establishment fury through grinding extremity.
Swedish doom/death metal duo singing exclusively in Swedish, formed in 2019 around songwriter Reese's vision for atmospheric death-doom with cinematic production. Their five releases from 2019's I Splittringens Tid to 2022's re-recorded Jordevandring MMXXII explore themes of war, death, and existential struggle across nearly 40 minutes of dark, melodic heaviness.
Progressive/death metal band from Paris, formed in 2021 and exploring the cerebral intersection of progressive complexity and death metal brutality. Their cortex-referencing name signals the brainy ambition of their approach.
Technical death metal band from Paris, active since 2012 and delivering over a decade of complex, precision-engineered extremity. Their decade-plus commitment to technical death metal has produced intricate, demanding compositions.
Melodic death metal/deathcore band from Almagro in Castilla-La Mancha, active since 2010 and delivering over a decade of genre-blending extremity. Their sound bridges the melodic hooks of Swedish death metal with deathcore's heavy breakdowns.
Norway — death metal and doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2024, they deal in percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Folk/melodic death metal band from Athens, formed in 2020 and weaving folk music elements into a melodic death metal framework. Their name, meaning "birth of the cosmos," points to a sound that blends mythological themes with the melodic intensity of extreme metal.
Progressive death metal project from Agno in Switzerland's Ticino region, formed in 2022 and exploring the technical and compositional possibilities of death metal. Their sound fuses intricate progressive structures with brutal death metal foundations.
Warsaw's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal and progressive metal unit is among them — wielding labyrinthine compositions spanning multiple movements and moods. Their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
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