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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Thrash/death metal band from La Thuile in the Italian Alps near the French border, active since 2012. Their approach delivers aggressive extreme metal from one of Italy's most remote mountain towns.
Reject the Sickness is a Belgian metal band from Ghent, formed in 2010, combining death and thrash metal with melodic elements to create what they describe as a militant and mechanical atmosphere. Their discography includes the albums 'Signs of the End', 'Chains of Solitude MMXXII', and 'While Our World Dissolves'.
Funeral doom/death metal band from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, active since 2006. Two decades of glacially paced, agonizing extreme metal from the Dynamo festival city.
Melodic black/death metal/metalcore band from Leiden, the Netherlands, formed in 2021. Their multi-genre approach blends melodic extreme metal with metalcore from the historic university city.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Omsk, Russia, active since 2013. Their approach bridges melodic death metal with metalcore from the western Siberian city.
Melodic death metal band from Ioannina in northwestern Greece, active since 2016. Their approach channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Epirus capital.
One-person black/doom/death metal project from Londrina, Paraná, formed in 2019 with lyrical themes of pessimism, suffering, and mental illness. The project released its debut album Pessimismo on May 7, 2019, and has since split up.
Kyiv doom/death metal act formed in 2021, merging crushing heaviness with death metal's guttural intensity from Ukraine's capital. Their fusion channels the most oppressive traditions of both genres.
Relics of Humanity is a brutal death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2012 and signed to Willowtip Records. Their 2025 album Absolute Dismal Domain continues the band's pursuit of death metal in its darkest and heaviest form, following earlier releases Obscuration and Ominously Reigning Upon The Intangible.
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