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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Makiivka-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2015, 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.
German death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Castrop-Rauxel in the Ruhr Valley, formed in 2014. They channel a feral blend of death-thrash and grindcore extremity.
Mealhada-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2020, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
Nottingham-based grindcore/powerviolence outfit active since 2015, dealing in short, violent compositions that careen between blasting speed and crushing slow sections. Their confrontational approach strips heavy music to its most aggressive core.
Crossover thrash outfit from Skopje, formed in 2000. Their sound channels the spirit of 1980s crossover, fusing hardcore punk's immediacy with thrash metal's technical edge.
Death metal and grindcore band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2014. Their irreverent pop-culture name belies a serious commitment to extreme metal.
Ivano-Frankivsk-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2021, 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.
Death-grind act from King's Lynn, formed in 2024. 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.
Death-grind act from Caxarias, formed in 2011. 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.
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