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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Yekaterinburg-based melodic death metal act active since 2017, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Royston in Hertfordshire, active since 2012. Their EPs Envisage and Life/Death merge full-throttle rhythmic patterns with ball-busting riffage, all woven together by captivating melodies and dynamic songwriting.
Monza-based melodic death metal act active since 2013, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
Budapest-based melodic death metal/metalcore act active since 2018, blending Gothenburg-inspired guitar harmonies with metalcore's dynamic structures and breakdown-driven intensity. Their sound bridges the melodic death metal tradition with modern extreme metal's visceral energy.
Melodic death metal outfit from Montemor-o-Novo, formed in 2024. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
German melodic death/thrash metal band from Solingen, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of experience, they are one of the Bergisches Land's longest-running extreme metal acts.
Melodic death metal outfit from Rome, formed in 2019. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
German melodic death metal band from Hanover, formed in 2011. They craft melodic death metal with Scandinavian-influenced harmonies from Lower Saxony's capital.
Black Trip is a melodic death metal band from Mexico City, Mexico, active since 1997 under that name. After releasing demo recordings in 1999 and 2005 and a string of EPs between 2007 and 2012, they delivered their self-titled debut full-length in 2018. The band later relocated to the Boston area while continuing to record and release new material independently.
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