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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/thrash metal band from Valkeala in southeastern Finland, formed in 2019 and fusing death metal's brutality with thrash's velocity. Their Finnish name meaning "claw" captures the predatory intensity of their sound.
Siemiatycze-based death metal and thrash metal act, active since 2015 delivering technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most formidable metal communities, their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Progressive thrash/death metal band from Nimes, active since 2016 and named with a Breton phrase meaning "blind division." Their technically ambitious approach merges progressive structures with extreme metal's aggression.
Melodic death/black metal band from Split, Croatia, active since 2014 and blending melodic death metal's sweeping guitar harmonies with black metal's atmospheric darkness. Their sound bridges the intensity of both genres from Croatia's Dalmatian coast.
Death metal band from Lille in northern France, active since 2015 and delivering a decade of brutal compositions. Their cattle-enclosure name adds a primal, pen-like containment to the savage fury of their sound.
International slam/brutal death metal band originally from Oslo, active since 2010, with members spanning Norway, the UK, Switzerland, Finland, and Germany. Their multinational lineup has made them one of Europe's most prominent slam death metal acts.
Parisian brutal death metal collective formed in 2019, delivering relentless, grinding extremity rooted in the French underground scene. Their Bandcamp presence points to a label-oriented collective approach to releasing punishing, uncompromising death metal.
Long Island's Kraegeloth has been honing melodic death metal since 2017, bringing Scandinavian-influenced craft to New York's dense and competitive extreme metal underground. Their emphasis on melody and atmosphere distinguishes them from the region's more brutality-focused acts.
Active in Kharkiv since 2023, this Ukrainian act forges Black Metal and Death Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
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