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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2021. They channel malevolent darkness through crushing death metal.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Hof in Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver slamming brutality and crushing breakdowns from the Bavarian-Thuringian border.
Brutal death metal band from Leon, Spain, formed in 2016. They deliver technically proficient, punishing death metal from the historic Castilian city.
Death metal act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2012. Chamber of Torture channels dark, dungeon-themed death metal from Russia's northern capital.
Beckley, West Virginia death-doom band Chambers of Disdain combine the crushing weight of doom metal with the aggression and density of death metal. Their sound is slow and oppressive, drawing on the death-doom tradition established by early Paradise Lost and Autopsy.
Death metal band from Redditch, England, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing death metal from the West Midlands.
Symphonic deathcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024. They blend symphonic grandeur with crushing deathcore breakdowns and death metal extremity.
Melodic death metal act from Almelo in Overijssel, formed in 2020. Chamunda — named after the Hindu goddess of death — delivers melodic extremity from eastern Netherlands.
Minneapolis, Minnesota atmospheric black metal act Changeling craft expansive, melancholic black metal rooted in the post-black and atmospheric traditions, incorporating ambient textures and dynamic shifts alongside the genre's core harshness. Minnesota's long winters and isolation are palpable in their sound.
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