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Featured Album
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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Crossover act from Germany fusing death metal and grindcore in a chaotic sonic assault since 2025. Their approach channels the most extreme elements of each genre into a relentless, genre-defying barrage.
Black/death Viking metal band spread across Helmond, Eindhoven, and Tilburg in the Netherlands, formed in 2021. Their sound merges Viking metal's epic themes with black and death metal aggression from the North Brabant region.
Death metal and melodic death metal act from London, England launched in 2024. They bring fresh melodic extremity to the capital's metal scene.
Portland's Ealdath has been threading doom and death metal together since 2014, drawing on the Northwest's overcast atmosphere to give their sound a particularly cold and funereal weight.
A Salt Lake City act that has quietly developed a blend of melodic death and black metal since 2008, Eallic leans into the melodic side of both genres to craft something darker and more atmospheric than either alone.
Deathcore act from the Rohrbach/Sankt Ingbert area of Germany's Saarland region, formed in 2023, delivering breakdown-heavy aggression. Their Cheech and Chong-referencing name adds dark humor to their punishing deathcore sound.
Black metal, death metal, and experimental act from London, England active since 2011. They push genre boundaries with avant-garde extremity from the British capital.
Death/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, delivering relentless aggression with an urgency reflected in their name since 2017. Their crossover of death and thrash metal channels the raw energy of the German capital's underground scene.
Death/thrash metal act from Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring raw, punky extreme metal energy to the Finnish underground.
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