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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious (2022)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Death metal act from Turin, formed in 2020. Corvus Black Hole conjures cosmic death metal themes from the Piedmontese underground.
Black-death metal band from Anglesey, Wales, formed in 2019. They fuse extreme metal darkness from the Welsh island off the northwest coast.
Blackened death metal act from Dublin, formed in 2016. Coscradh — an Irish word meaning 'slaughter' — has earned a fierce reputation for chaotic, war-like extreme metal.
Virginia brutal death metal act that weaponizes speed, blast beats, and guttural extremity. Their name says it all — they deal in punishment at the outer limits of the genre.
Death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing death metal from the cultural capital of Saxony.
Scorching Death / Black Metal out of Texas.
Death metal band from Plymouth, England, formed in 2020. They deliver crushing death metal from the Devon coast.
Blackened death metal project listed under Portugal, formed in 2020. Cosmic Conqueror delivers interstellar-themed extreme metal.
Georgia progressive death/thrash band that works existential menace into technically sophisticated songwriting. Their music is expansive and unnerving, built on shifting riff patterns and relentless forward momentum.
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