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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Melodic death metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, active since 2009. They craft melodic yet intense death metal from the Finnish lake district.
Melodic death metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2021. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Rhineland's cultural capital.
Melodic death metal band from Exeter, England, active since 2010. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Devon capital.
Cincinnati, Ohio crust-punk and death metal band Coelacanth have been grinding out ferocious, politically charged metal since the early 1990s, earning a cult following in the American underground. Their sound fuses the rawness of crust with the brutality of early death metal.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Leeds, England, active since 2013. They blend melodic sensibilities with extreme metal dynamics from Yorkshire.
Melodic death metal act from Turin, formed in 2018. Coiled Around Thy Spine delivers intricate, melody-driven death metal from the Piedmontese capital.
Oakland's Cold Grave weave black and melodic death metal into dark, riff-driven compositions that balance Scandinavian melody with American underground rawness and Bay Area intensity.
Melodic death metal act from Kyiv, active since 2012. Cold Resistance has spent over a decade delivering hook-driven extreme metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Symphonic melodic death-black metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2018. They weave symphonic elements through a foundation of blackened melodic death metal.
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