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Featured Album
Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Sinner [Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Bonus Commentary - Disc One)] (2014)
06/17 @ G Live Guildford, Guildford
Featured Grindcore Album
Brave New World (2025)
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Death metal band from Shumen, Bulgaria, formed in 2021. They channel unrelenting death metal from northeastern Bulgaria.
Progressive death metal outfit from Astrakhan, formed in 2014. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Death/thrash metal band from Saint-Avold in the Moselle department of northeastern France, active since 2016. Their album Reasons to Go Insane pairs melodic sensibilities with aggressive thrash instrumentation and dark lyrical themes.
Since 2020, this Dutch thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Kaatsheuvel. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Brutal death metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2023. A young act delivering punishing, guttural extremity in the French brutal death metal underground.
Punishing brutal death metal from Radomsko, formed in 2021. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German death/thrash/doom metal band from Krölpa in Thuringia, formed in 2016. They blend three heavy genres into a savage, multifaceted assault.
Czech experimental grindcore and death metal band from Prague, active since 1996, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Czech extreme music underground. Their nearly three decades of output blends grindcore chaos with death metal heaviness and experimental unpredictability.
's-Hertogenbosch-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2024, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
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