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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Melodic death-thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. They blend melodic death metal with thrash speed from the Greek capital.
Metalcore and melodic death metal band from Vienna, formed in 2016, addressing socio-political themes of manipulation, conformity, and institutional control. Their debut 'Roots' features members Dominic Grunanger, Maximilian Ofner, and Adriano Tomasetti delivering groove-heavy modern metal.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Munich, Germany. They blend melodic guitar harmonies with metalcore dynamics and death metal aggression.
Melodic death-thrash band from Kiel on the Baltic Sea, Germany, active since 2011. They combine the melodic sensibilities of Scandinavian death metal with the speed of thrash.
Melodic death-thrash act from Södertälje near Stockholm, active since 2014. Chaosys delivers aggressive, hook-driven extreme metal.
Melodic death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2013. They craft melodic yet chaotic death metal from the Finnish capital.
Melodic death metal band from Kokkola, Finland, formed in 2020. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Littleton, Colorado's Chastisement approaches death metal with a direct, suffocating brutality that draws on the genre's most uncompromising American traditions. Their recordings reflect a commitment to heaviness above all other considerations.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Bottrop, Germany, formed in 2017. They blend melodic guitar harmonies with crushing deathcore breakdowns from the northern Ruhr region.
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