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Featured Album
Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
Black Ninja (2013)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Bonus Commentary / Disc Two) (2015)
06/17 @ G Live Guildford, Guildford
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Black, death, and thrash metal band from the Zonhoven/As area of Belgium, active since 2012. They fuse elements from across the extreme metal spectrum into a boundary-pushing hybrid attack.
Uncompromising death metal from Newcastle upon Tyne, active since 2021. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
French melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Chartres, formed in 2016. They blend melodeath and thrash with metalcore from the cathedral city of Eure-et-Loir.
Death-grind act from Moscow, formed in 2017. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
Spanish death metal band from Hernani in the Basque Country, formed in 2013. They forge brotherhood-bound death metal from the Basque heartland.
Death/thrash outfit from Piława Górna, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Thrash metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Thessaloniki-based death/thrash metal act active since 2013, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
German death metal band from Nuremberg, formed in 2026. They represent the newest generation of Nuremberg's death metal underground.
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