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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
Featured Power Metal Album
Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
rosemary (2023)
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Blackened death metal band from Pisa, Italy, formed in 2014, whose name references the moth family. They bring dark, winged intensity to the Tuscan metal underground.
Death metal and grindcore band from Coburg, Germany, formed in 2007, bringing crude extremity and irreverent energy to the Franconian metal underground. They are a veteran act in the Bavarian grindcore scene.
Milwaukee's Phantasm conjures death metal from the frozen Midwest, channeling the bleak severity of Wisconsin winters into riffs that lurch and devour.
Paris's Pestiferis emerged in 2021 with a black-death metal hybrid that carries the plague-bearing menace of their Latin name. Their French capital base provides access to a thriving network of extreme metal artists and dedicated underground venues.
Melodic death metal band from Mielec, Poland, formed in 2024, wielding ghostly precision through melodic death metal from the Podkarpacie region. They bring fresh melodic aggression to southeastern Poland.
Los Angeles's Phantom Horde brings a sweeping melodic death metal vision to the sprawling city — hook-laden riffs and dual-guitar harmonies with a cinematic scope befitting the city of angels.
Death metal band from Sweden, formed in 2026, whose name references ghostly apparitions. They represent the absolute newest wave of Swedish death metal.
Death and doom metal turned death'n'roll band from Nancy, France, formed in 2004, evolving from crushingly heavy death-doom into groove-driven death'n'roll. Their stylistic evolution reflects an increasingly riff-oriented and swaggering approach.
Death and thrash metal band from Velke Kapusany, Slovakia, formed in 2016, named after the sedative drug. They deliver sedating heaviness from the easternmost reaches of Slovakia.
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