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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Ankara-based death metal act active since 2010, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Death metal outfit from Drachten, formed in 2019. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Spanish death metal band from Valladolid, formed in 2012. They deliver ritualistic death metal from the Castilian heartland.
Death metal outfit from Nottingham, formed in 2021. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Burial Temple is a death metal band from Brasília, Brazil, whose music is centered on themes of necrolatry, funeral rites, and death worship. The band released their debut demo "Mortal Scum" in 2019, recorded live at Texas Studio in Brasília, and the recording was released in 2020 through underground label Cianeto Discos. They describe their sound as "an agonizing threnody of misery; a passionate ode to Death and its infinite ways."
German melodic death metal band from Papenburg in East Frisia, active since 2008. They bring nearly two decades of melodic death metal to the North Sea coast region.
Finnish brutal death/black metal band from Saarijärvi, formed in 2023. They deliver burial-mound-dwelling extreme metal from central Finland.
Emerging in 2021 from Swindon, this death metal act channels the genre's primal aggression through tight, riff-driven compositions. Their recordings carry the unmistakable weight of classic death metal.
German black/death metal and crust band from Nordhausen in Thuringia, formed in 2017. They fuse extreme metal with crust punk's raw energy from the southern Harz region.
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