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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Technical grindcore/death metal band from the Leeds/Bradford area, formed in 2024. Their approach combines grindcore's velocity with death metal's technicality from West Yorkshire.
Reticulate is a death metal band from Barcelona, Spain. The band delivers technical death metal from the Catalan capital's thriving extreme metal community.
Esch-sur-Alzette deathcore act formed in 2014, one of Luxembourg's few representatives in the extreme metal underground. Their punishing breakdowns and aggressive delivery carry the genre's flag from the Grand Duchy.
Kremenchuk death metal project launched in 2025, delivering brutal extremity from central Ukraine. Their punishing approach channels the newest wave of Ukrainian death metal.
Retribution is a death/thrash metal band from Nagel in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, active since 2001. The band has maintained over two decades of death-thrash from the Fichtelgebirge mountain region.
Retromorphosis is a technical death metal supergroup from Sweden, formed in 2025 by former Spawn of Possession members. Featuring Christian Muenzner (ex-Obscura, ex-Necrophagist) on guitar, their debut 'Psalmus Mortis' delivers freakishly fast riffs and warped rhythmic precision steeped in cosmic horror.
Levice death/doom metal act formed in 2020, merging death metal's guttural extremity with doom's crushing weight from southern Slovakia. Their fusion channels the heaviest traditions of both genres.
Return to End is a melodic death metal band from Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2012. The band delivers melodic death metal from the forested Siegerland region where Westphalia meets Hesse.
Return to Innocence is a doom/death metal band from Mladá Boleslav in central Bohemia, Czech Republic, active since 2001 and one of the longer-running acts in the Czech doom scene. The band channels the classic melancholy of European doom/death through over two decades of activity.
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