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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Rhotide is a symphonic/melodic death metal band from Joensuu in eastern Finland, active since 2016. The band layers orchestral arrangements over melodic death metal from the capital of North Karelia.
Death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2021. Their approach merges death metal with thrash velocity from the Russian capital.
Industrial/technical death metal and djent solo artist from Rome, Italy, active since 2019. The project blends industrial textures with technically demanding death metal and modern djent rhythmic precision.
Black/death/thrash metal quartet from Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria, founded in 2009 and radically overhauled in 2015. Their debut full-length concept album Ascheland (2018, Studio Hundert), depicts the total downfall of humanity across its runtime, following an early 2012 demo recorded in Vienna.
Death metal/grindcore band from Dundee, Scotland, formed in 2024. Their approach combines death metal heaviness with grindcore velocity from the Scottish east coast.
Doom/death metal band from Novovoronezh, Russia, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of crushing doom-death from the nuclear power plant town in the Voronezh Oblast.
Death/thrash metal band from Dongen, the Netherlands, formed in 2022. Their approach merges death metal heaviness with thrash velocity from the North Brabant town.
Death metal band from Gdańsk, Poland, active since 2013. Their German name, meaning 'giant,' accompanies death metal from the Baltic coast.
Death metal band from Brescia, Italy, active since 2017. Their exhumation-themed name accompanies death metal from the Lombardy industrial city.
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