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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Blood Eagle (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Greek black/death metal band from Athens, merging blackened atmosphere with death metal brutality since 2017. Their name channels the ritualistic, sacrilegious character of their extreme metal.
Spanish black/death metal band from Barcelona, debuting with the 'Chased Til Death' EP in 2019. Their six-track release blends melodic death metal and black metal elements across 25 minutes of intense, technically proficient extremity.
Newcastle-based old-school death metal band releasing through multiple formats with a catalog spanning five releases since their 2013 demo. Their sound channels classic death metal influences through raw, uncompromising aggression that has sold out most of their physical releases.
Graz-based groove/death metal act formed in 2023, channeling psychological despair through crushing riffs, intense rhythms, and guttural vocals. Their debut 'Descent Into Madness' explores themes of existential turmoil across nine tracks of raw, cathartic heaviness.
Norwegian progressive death/groove metal band from Oslo, blending technical ambition with rhythmic heaviness since 2017. Their approach channels prog complexity through the dual lens of death and groove metal.
Portland's Lividus pull from melodic death, progressive, and thrash metal, building technically ambitious compositions that reward close listening with layered, shifting dynamics.
Atlanta's Living Decay have been churning out uncompromising death metal since 2009, blending Southern grit with methodical, carnage-focused brutality.
Living Gate is a Belgian death metal band formed in 2020 by members drawn from some of Europe's most respected heavy bands: Aaron Rieseberg of American doom act Yob alongside Lennart Bossu, Wim Coppers, and Levy Seynaeve of Oathbreaker, Wiegedood, and Amenra. The project channels a shared love of classic, unpolished death metal into a deliberately raw and unfussy sound, debuting with the Deathlust EP on Relapse Records in 2020 and following up with their first full-length Suffer As One in 2024.
French death metal band from Paris, delivering old-school death metal aggression since 2013. Their name captures the decomposing, putrid essence of their death metal sound.
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