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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Melodic death-thrash act from Kamyzyak in the Astrakhan region, formed in 2018. C-300 delivers extreme metal from the remote Caspian lowlands of Russia.
Black and death metal band from Slavonski Brod, Croatia, formed in 2017. C.F.T.C. fuses melodic death metal hooks with black metal intensity in a provocative package.
Melodic death metal act from Purmerend, Netherlands, active since 2001. Cacatory has spent over two decades crafting hook-driven death metal from North Holland.
Black metal act from Ashland City, Tennessee, operating in the shadow of the Appalachian underground since 2015.
Symphonic gothic melodic death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. They blend symphonic grandeur with gothic and melodic death metal from the Greek capital.
Melodic death metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2018. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Melodic death metal act from Novosibirsk, active since 2016. Cain the Whaler delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Siberian capital.
Melodic death metal band from the San Diego area, active since 2012 and part of the South Bay scene that has long cultivated both heavy and melodic extremes.
Melodic death metal band from Funchal, the capital of Madeira island in the Atlantic, active since 2012. Calamity Islet delivers island-forged extreme metal from Portugal's most remote outpost.
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