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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Thrash/death metal band from Granada in Andalusia, active since 2014 and named after the Mongolian emperor. Their aggressive sound channels the conquering fury evoked by their imperial namesake.
Death metal and hardcore band from Reading, formed in 2022 and named after the sorcerer villain from Marvel's Conan comics. Their sound merges death metal's extremity with hardcore's directness and confrontational energy.
Atmospheric doom/death metal project from Finland, formed in 2017 and named after the tragic hero of the Finnish national epic Kalevala. Their sound channels the mythological sorrow and doomed fate of their Kalevala namesake.
Death metal band from Tarnow in southeastern Poland, active since 2015. Their Polish name meaning "cult of graves" captures the morbid, sepulchral nature of their death metal approach.
Groove/death metal band from Kassel in Hesse, active since 2009 and delivering heavy, rhythmically driven compositions for over fifteen years. Their Japanese-named project pairs groove metal's crushing weight with death metal's aggression.
Slam/brutal death metal and grindcore band from Vantaa, active since 2012 and delivering the most extreme, deliberately offensive sonic violence in the Finnish underground. Their provocative name matches their commitment to pushing boundaries of heaviness.
Death metal band from Vigo in Galicia, active since 2015 and delivering brutal extremity from Spain's northwestern Atlantic coast. Their Spanish name meaning "cradle of hate" captures the seething aggression at the core of their sound.
Ozark, Alabama's Kunikos has been developing melodic death metal since 2023 in a part of the South more associated with country music than tremolo picking. Their dedication to the genre in such an unlikely locale speaks to the reach of melodic death metal into the farthest corners of the American underground.
Thrash/groove/death metal band from Lempaala near Tampere, formed in 2025 with a Finnish name meaning "hand of death." Their triple-genre approach delivers lethal heaviness from the Pirkanmaa region.
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