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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Death-grind act from Ankara, formed in 2025. Cerahat — Turkish for 'pus' — delivers visceral extremity from the Turkish capital.
Death metal act from Vladivostok on the Pacific coast, active since 2015. Cerber — Russian spelling of Cerberus — delivers hellish death metal from the Russian Far East.
Riverside, New Jersey band working in death-doom, combining the crushing weight of doom metal with the brutality of death metal for a slow, dense, and suffocating sound.
Lakeland, Florida death metal band playing in the tradition of the Sunshine State's storied brutal death metal underground.
Los Angeles, California band blending melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the riff aggression of thrash, resulting in a melodically charged and technically driven sound.
Melodic death metal band from Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England, formed in 2016. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the English Home Counties.
Cleveland, Ohio act spanning black metal, death metal, and thrash, drawing on all three traditions to create a raw and aggressive hybrid sound.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Seinajoki, Finland, formed in 2024. They blend melodic sensibilities with metalcore dynamics from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Brutal death metal band from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, delivering the genre's characteristic combination of blast beats, guttural vocals, and heavily downtuned riffing.
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