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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Melodic death metal band from Anapa on Russia's Black Sea coast, active since 2010. Their approach delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the resort city.
Progressive black/death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2020. Their approach pushes black and death metal into progressive, boundary-crossing territory.
Death metal band from Stockport, England, formed in 2025. Their approach delivers death metal from the Greater Manchester town.
Ankara melodic death/doom metal act formed in 2021, weaving sorrowful melodies through crushing heaviness from Turkey's capital. Their mournful approach channels the emotional weight of both traditions.
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Roadkill XIII is a death/thrash metal band from Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany, active since 2004, having evolved from earlier groove/thrash roots into a heavier death-thrash direction. Over two decades of activity make them veterans of the Bavarian extreme metal scene.
Roarback is a death/thrash metal band from the Roskilde/Slagelse/Sorø area on the island of Zealand in Denmark, formed in 2012. The band delivers aggressive death-thrash from the western Zealand region, home to Denmark's famous Roskilde festival.
Death metal/goregrind band from Cornwall, England, active since 2016. Their approach delivers visceral extreme metal from England's remote southwestern peninsula.
Robse is a melodic death/pagan metal project from Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2020. The project channels Germanic pagan themes through melodic death metal from the Mark Brandenburg region east of Berlin.
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