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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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German death/thrash metal band from Stuttgart, formed in 2019. They combine death metal's guttural intensity with thrash metal's relentless speed and precision.
London-based death metal and grindcore band active since 2012, creating what they call serial killing snuff grind. Their prolific discography from Suffocation through Lessons in Murder and 2025's Gallery of Monsters delivers graphically extreme sonic brutality steeped in horror and true crime themes.
Finnish death metal and grindcore band from Tampere, formed in 2022. They deliver bashed-out death-grind from Finland's industrial heartland.
Oklahoma City brutal death metal and hardcore band Bashed In operated from 2021 until their breakup, releasing through Vile Tapes Records and building their sound around themes of hate and violence.
Philadelphia death/black metal band Basilysk formed in 2009 and spent over a decade exploring misanthropic and occult themes before going on hold in 2021.
Portland's Bastard Feast is a ferocious collision of sludge, death metal, grindcore, and crust, channeling social unrest and anarchic politics; they released material on Season of Mist Underground Activists.
Helsingborg death metal act delivering crushing, no-frills Swedish death metal since 2014. Their sound mines the classic Stockholm and Gothenburg production aesthetics with a relentless, grinding intensity.
A Colorado Springs death metal outfit, Bastard of Bethlehem has been active since 2021, building a two-piece foundation around members Lance and Dru.
Austrian grindcore/death metal trio from Kirchberg an der Pielach featuring Engel Mayr on guitar and vocals, Jürgen Schallauer on bass, and Urge Kirchner on drums. Their releases "Scheiss auf dein Geld" and "Wer das Schlechte nicht ehrt" showcase German-language hardcore punk-infused grind and death metal.
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