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Melodic death metal band from Luxembourg City, emerging in 2025 and contributing to the small but growing metal scene of the Grand Duchy. Their sound channels the Scandinavian melodeath tradition from the heart of Western Europe.
Death and thrash metal band from Turin, Italy, active since 2019. Their sound fuses the technical aggression of death metal with thrash's relentless speed from the Piedmontese capital.
Thrash and death metal band from Plymouth in Devon, England, active since 2020. Their sound combines thrash metal's speed with death metal's heaviness from the southwest English port city.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Strasbourg in Alsace, France, active since 2017 and delivering dual-genre extremity from the Franco-German border region. Their sound combines the blasting speed of grindcore with brutal death metal's guttural ferocity.
Unformulas is a Swedish epic death metal project from Ljungskile, driven by multi-instrumentalist Nicklas Rudolfsson with vocalist David Nilsson delivering lead vocals. Their releases include the albums Spiritual Chaos Vortex and Post Mortem Visionary.
Brutal death metal band from Waalwijk, the Netherlands, named after Tolkien's giant spider, active since 2022. Their sound channels the relentless, devouring brutality suggested by their dark fantasy namesake.
Ungraced is a black/death metal project from Stockholm, Sweden, forging extreme metal with a blackened edge since 2022. The project operates within Stockholm's deep well of death and black metal tradition.
Death and groove metal band from the remote Norwegian town of Hoyanger, active since 2019. Their sound combines death metal's aggression with groove metal's rhythmic power from the depths of the Sognefjord.
Ungraved is a melodic death metal band from Novosibirsk, Russia, active since 2006 with releases including the Nova VVorld and A Life Elder. The project represents one of Siberia's longest-running melodic death metal acts.
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