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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2016. They blend melodic sensibilities with metalcore dynamics from northern Finland.
Melodic death-thrash band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2013. They blend the melodic sensibilities of Gothenburg-style death metal with thrash metal's relentless speed.
Wilmington's Casting blend melodic death metal's expressive lead guitar work with thrash's tightly coiled riffing, shifting fluidly between melodic passages and aggressive, propulsive runs.
Castle Ultra from Rancho Cucamonga blend melodic death metal's harmonic richness with metalcore's structural dynamics, layering clean melodic passages against heavier, breakdown-driven sections.
Black and melodic death metal band from Dobrovice, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. Their sound merges the raw intensity of black metal with the harmonic structures and melodic sensibility of death metal.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend brutal death metal, deathcore, melodic death metal, and thrash into an ambitious assault.
Technical melodic death metal band from Loppem, Belgium, formed in 2019. They combine the precision and complexity of technical death metal with the melodic sensibility of the Gothenburg tradition, creating an intricate yet accessible sound.
Akron, Ohio metalcore/thrash hybrid combining the breakdown-driven aggression of metalcore with the driving riff velocity of thrash.
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