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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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Aurillac death metal act from the mountainous Auvergne region, formed in 2021. Their remote location in the Massif Central gives their death metal an isolated, insular quality distinct from the Parisian scene.
Belgian death/groove metal band from Liege, merging death metal brutality with groove-driven rhythms since 2019. Their name captures the critical, civilization-questioning themes at the core of their sound.
Milan-based extreme metal band that evolved from death 'n' roll origins into blackened death metal, active since 2018. Their stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly dark and aggressive trajectory.
Strasbourg progressive death metal act formed in 2019, applying progressive structures and compositional ambition to a death metal foundation. Their Alsatian base, straddling French and German culture, informs a style that draws from both nations' extreme metal traditions.
Norwegian extreme metal band from Stord with a career arc spanning death metal, symphonic black metal, and melodic black metal since 1998. Their stylistic evolution across multiple phases reflects the creative restlessness of the Bergen-area black metal tradition.
Strasbourg death metal act formed in 2019, contributing to the Alsatian capital's growing extreme metal presence. Their name -- meaning to block or seal -- captures the suffocating, claustrophobic quality of their death metal.
Death/thrash metal band from Trondheim, Norway, with roots dating to 1999. Over two decades of death-thrash from Norway's third city represent exceptional longevity.
Umea black/death metal act formed in 2020, adding to northern Sweden's extreme metal output from the Vasterbotten university city. Their sunset-referencing Latin name creates a poetic contrast with the sonic hostility of their blackened death metal.
Burgos-based melodic death/black metal act active since 2014, blending harmonic melodeath with blackened intensity. Operating from the historic Castilian city, their work carries a weight befitting a place steeped in medieval history.
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