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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Death metal and hardcore band from Chelyabinsk, Russia, formed in 2017, delivering crushing extremity from the southern Urals industrial city. They bring over eight years of death-hardcore to the Russian scene.
Death metal band from Dej, Romania, active since 2003, delivering over two decades of death metal from the northern Transylvanian town. They are veterans of the Romanian extreme metal underground.
Hailing from Minnesota and formed in 2025, Protogen Cumdumpster are a brutal death metal act who lean fully into the genre's extremity — low tunings, relentless blasts, and guttural vocals delivered without compromise or concession to accessibility. They represent the most uncompromising fringe of the American brutal death underground.
Deathcore band from Alessandria, Italy, active since 2008, delivering heavy breakdowns and modern extreme metal from the Piedmont region. Nearly two decades of activity mark them as a veteran Italian deathcore act.
Melodic death metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2014, delivering over a decade of provocative melodic death metal from the Ukrainian capital. They bring confrontational melody to the Kyiv scene.
Straddling the Bavarian-Hessian border from the Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg corridor, Provocation has been dealing brutal death metal since 2019. Their Main River valley setting provides an unexpected home for some of the region's most punishing sonic output.
Progressive melodic death metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2020, named after the nearest known exoplanet to Earth. They explore cosmic themes through technically ambitious and melodically rich death metal.
Death and black metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, active since 2008, delivering over seventeen years of extreme metal from the transcontinental city. They are veterans of the Turkish underground.
Black and death metal band from Wroclaw and Zlotoryja, Poland, formed in 2014, whose name means 'pillory' in Polish. They deliver punishing blackened death metal from the Lower Silesian region.
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