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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Punishing brutal death metal from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2024. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Death-grind act from Poznań, formed in 2012. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
German death metal and grindcore band from Cologne, formed in 2024. They blast through death metal and grindcore with frenzied intensity from the Rhineland.
Larissa-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2011, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Spanish goregrind band from Mieres in Asturias, formed in 2025. They deliver rotting goregrind from the mining valleys of northern Spain.
German brutal death metal and goregrind band from Saxony, formed in 2020. They specialize in the most extreme end of death metal with goregrind's deliberately revolting sonic aesthetic.
French slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band from Bordeaux, formed in 2025. They specialize in the most extreme end of death metal from southwestern France.
Bristol death metal and grindcore band formed in 2025. Their debut God Rot Your Soul delivers nine tracks of technical death-grind with literary horror themes drawn from Poe and W.W. Jacobs alongside dystopian imagery.
French goregrind band from the Île-de-France region, formed in 2017. They deliver revolting goregrind from the Parisian metropolitan area.
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