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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Progressive/technical death metal band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, formed in 2015, channeling the intellectually demanding side of death metal through shifting time signatures and technically intricate arrangements.
Moscow's Synkletos have been pairing melodic doom and death metal since 2011. Their Greek-derived name meaning "senate" or "assembly" channels the authority of collective judgment into over a decade of compositions that merge melody with funereal weight.
Death/doom metal band from Mount Prospect, Illinois, formed in 2022, delivering the suffocating combination of cavernous death metal heaviness and doom metal's funeral pace that defines the death-doom subgenre.
Long-running death metal and deathcore band from Chisago City, Minnesota, formed in 1986, one of the rare acts to span the original death metal era and evolve into the modern deathcore landscape over nearly four decades of activity.
Synrah is an industrial symphonic death/black metal band from Norco, California, formed in 2013, blending orchestral grandeur with mechanized heaviness and extreme metal aggression into a densely layered sound.
Synthema Occvlta is a black/death metal project from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 2025, drawing on occult imagery and the raw brutality shared by both extreme metal traditions.
Synthetic Mirage deliver melodic death metal and metalcore from the Castilian city of Burgos, combining Scandinavian melodeath with modern heaviness. Formed in 2024, they bring illusory intensity to the northern Castilian scene.
Partizanske's Synthetically Revived deliver brutal death metal from the central Slovak industrial town since 2016. Their artificial-resurrection name channels the technological reanimation of the dead into compositions of mechanized extremity.
Syphilic Menstruation is a brutal death metal band from New Mexico, formed in 2019, trafficking in the extreme gore-drenched aesthetic and punishing rhythmic density central to the brutal death metal subgenre.
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