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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Grindcore Album
Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Death metal band from Bradford in West Yorkshire, active since 2017 and delivering the relentless heaviness and guttural intensity characteristic of the genre. Their sound channels death metal's most punishing elements through Bradford's underground scene.
Death metal band from Cardiff, Wales, active since 2017 and operating within the Welsh extreme metal underground. Their approach delivers cold, crushing death metal with technical precision.
Crushing Death Metal from Connecticut / Ohio /.
Melodic death/black metal band from Hagen in Westphalia, formed in 2020 and pairing melodic hooks with extreme metal aggression. Their dual-genre approach blends accessibility with the darkness of black and death metal.
Death/thrash metal band from Nottingham, formed in 2023 and merging death metal's brutality with thrash metal's high-speed attack. Their sound sits at the aggressive crossroads where these two genres collide.
Melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Sant Cugat del Valles near Barcelona, formed in 2022 and blending multiple aggressive styles. Their versatile approach draws from the full spectrum of modern extreme metal.
Baltimore death/thrash metal outfit Kryptic has been crafting their brand of muscular, riff-driven extremity since 2014. Drawing on the mid-Atlantic's historically strong metal tradition, they split the difference between thrash's velocity and death metal's crushing weight with practiced efficiency.
Death metal band from Malaga on the Costa del Sol, active since 2014 and delivering a decade of brutal extremity from Spain's Mediterranean coast. Their sound channels death metal's visceral power beneath the Andalusian sun.
Brutal Death Metal from McAllen.
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