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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Borderland (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Unholy Savior (2015)
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Death-doom metal band from Ptolemaida in western Macedonia, Greece, formed in 2023. They merge death metal aggression with crushing doom from the Greek mining region.
Alabama death metal act Christ deal in blunt, straightforward brutality from the American South, a region with its own tradition of extreme music running underneath the mainstream. Heavy and unadorned.
Houston brutal death metal act Christ Malformation deliver relentless extremity from deep in the Texas underground, combining technical brutality with blasphemous intent. Heavy and unsparing.
Brutal death metal band from Nuneaton, England. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the West Midlands.
Morgantown, West Virginia black/death act Christ Slaughter channel Appalachian isolation into raw, hostile metal that draws from both traditions without fully committing to either. Underground and uncompromising.
Death-doom act from Elbląg on Poland's Baltic coast, active since 2015. Christ's Flesh merges crushing death metal with plodding doom pacing.
Denver brutal death metal outfit Christectomy delivers pulverizing low-end riffs and blast-heavy compositions rooted firmly in the gore-drenched traditions of the genre. Their sound favors maximum density and surgical brutality over melodic concession.
Black-death metal band from Stafford, England, active since 2013. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the Staffordshire heartland.
Death-grind-thrash act from Radom, central Poland, formed in 2017. Christhole delivers a volatile mix of extreme subgenres.
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