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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Maltese death metal/crossover band from Marsa, active since 2003 and representing the island's longest-running extreme act. Their two decades of brutality make them pioneers of the Maltese underground metal scene.
Grindcore/death metal outfit from Ghent, Belgium, unleashing short, savage blasts of extremity since 2012. Their sound combines grind's blistering speed and brevity with death metal's low-end heaviness and guttural vocals.
Czech thrash/death metal band from Prague, delivering relentless aggression since 2006. As one of Prague's longer-running extreme acts, they channel two decades of thrash and death metal intensity into their punishing sound.
French death metal band from the Pays de la Loire region, active since 2018. Their name, meaning 'Places of Hell,' signals the infernal, underworld character of their death metal.
British slam/brutal death metal band from Macclesfield, delivering punishing slams and crushing heaviness since 2019. Their no-nonsense name signals the direct, heavy-hitting assault of their slam death approach.
Russian thrash/death/groove metal band from Moscow, combining three strains of metal aggression since 2017. Their name, meaning 'madness,' captures the volatile, unhinged character of their multi-genre assault.
London-based thrash/death/groove metal band formed in 2019, combining three strains of metal aggression. Their versatile approach spans thrash speed, death metal brutality, and groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Italian brutal death metal band from Reggio Emilia, delivering uncompromising extremity since 2010. Their philosophical name signals the cerebral dimension beneath their brutal death metal assault.
French death metal band from Cagnes-sur-Mer, formed in 2023 and delivering raw brutality from the Riviera. Their sound brings death metal's uncompromising heaviness to the Mediterranean coast.
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