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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Folk-infused melodic death metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, active since 2012. They weave folk elements and dark melodies through a black and death metal foundation.
Melodic death metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 2010. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Bavarian capital with over a decade of experience.
Hermitage, Pennsylvania death metal band rooted in the Western Pennsylvania tradition of uncompromising underground heaviness. Their material is direct, brutal, and concerned with little beyond effective riff delivery.
Green Bay act merging industrial metal's mechanical coldness with the brutality of death metal. Their sound is mechanized and crushing, built on rhythmic punishment and processed aggression.
Houston act colliding death metal ferocity with grinding velocity and unexpected power metal dynamics. An unlikely but punishing combination drawn from the deep well of Houston's extreme music scene.
Rimini-based death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2018, unleashing grinding blastbeats and guttural brutality from Italy's Adriatic coast. Their punishing sonic assault draws from the tradition of extreme music's most visceral subgenres.
Crust-death metal band from Patras, Greece, emerging in 2025. They fuse crust punk fury with death metal aggression from the Peloponnese.
Death-sludge metal band from Poitiers, France, formed in 2015. They merge death metal aggression with crushing sludge weight.
Los Angeles death metal and deathcore act evoking mythological dread in both name and sonic execution. Their music descends into guttural extremity, marked by technical aggression and punishing breakdowns.
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