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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Routahauta is a death metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2025. Named combining the Finnish words for 'frost' and 'grave,' the project delivers death metal from Finland's third-largest city.
Royal Desolation is a metalcore band from the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, blending modern metal with catchy choruses, powerful riffing, and punctuated 80s synth sounds. Their pandemic-delayed debut album Puppet Dance contains 12 songs and was preceded by three singles, establishing their hook-driven approach to contemporary metalcore.
Rubufaso Mukufo is a grindcore and brutal death metal band from Ostrava in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, active since 2007. Self-describing their output as 'raw, aggressive and intensive Grind Core at its best,' their releases include Violent Show 2017 and Mortal Assassinity.
New Orleans' Rude Awakening pulls from three of the heaviest currents in American metal — thrash, groove, and death — blending their distinct textures into a sound that is aggressive, swinging, and mean in the way the city seems to demand. Formed in 2021, they fit naturally into the NOLA heavy underground.
Ruhje is a death metal band from the Taipalsaari/Lappeenranta area in southeastern Finland, active since 2016. Named from a Finnish word meaning roughly 'wound,' the band channels death metal from the Karelian border region.
Melodic death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2022. Their approach channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from West Yorkshire.
Ruin of Remembrance is a melodic death metal band from Braubach on the Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, active since 2012. The band weaves melodic death metal from the scenic middle Rhine valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Symphonic deathcore band from Vorarlberg and Tyrol in western Austria, founded in 2023 by vocalist Claudio Kofler, guitarist Daniel Bauer, bassist Nikolaj Reiplinger, and drummer Emil Feuerstein. The band layer orchestral elements — choirs, synths, and strings — over the crushing breakdowns and extreme vocals of modern deathcore.
Lviv black/death metal act formed in 2020, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity from western Ukraine's cultural capital. Their fusion channels the darkest impulses of both genres.
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