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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Green Man Rising (Demo) (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Death-thrash band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2020. Capulus channels aggressive riffing and relentless energy rooted in the Irish capital's thriving metal scene.
Brutal death-deathcore act from the Odessa region, formed in 2024. Carabid — named after predatory ground beetles — delivers crushing extremity from southern Ukraine.
Wichita, Kansas act formed in 2014 fusing melodic death metal with groove metal and deathcore, delivering aggressive riffing tempered by melodic hooks.
Blackened death metal act from Fossano in Cuneo province, Piedmont, formed in 2019. Caradhras — named after the Tolkien mountain — conjures dark, epic extreme metal.
Melodic death metal and groove metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2009. They blend Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with heavy grooves and aggressive dynamics.
Progressive death metal band from Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany, formed in 2018. They merge technical complexity and dynamic songwriting with the heavy foundation of death metal.
Death metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2022. They channel punishing death metal aggression from Lower Saxony's capital city.
Death metal band from Debrecen, Hungary's second-largest city, formed in 2016. Carbon Cage delivers brutal, unrelenting death metal from eastern Hungary.
Brutal death metal band from Bordeaux, France, formed in 2017. They deliver punishing death metal brutality from the Aquitaine capital.
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