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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Trading in pure metallic intensity, this death metal, melodic death metal, and thrash metal act from Mariestad traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 1994, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
Formed in 2023, this Kyiv Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, and Symphonic Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Melodic death/gothic metal band from Bocșa in the Banat region of western Romania, formed in 2023. Their sound blends melodic death metal with gothic atmospherics from one of Romania's smaller Carpathian towns.
Part of Poland's relentlessly productive underground, this act channels avant-garde metal, death metal, and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2015, based in Żory, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Symphonic and melodic death metal act from Lugano in Switzerland's Italian-speaking Ticino region, blending orchestral grandeur with aggressive precision since 2020. Their Mediterranean location adds a distinctive warmth to their fusion of symphonic beauty and death metal ferocity.
Seattle's Eternal Dusk arrived in 2023 fusing melodic death and thrash into something that carries the grey Pacific Northwest sky in its tone. Their city's long tradition of heavy, atmosphere-soaked metal seems baked into every riff.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels death metal and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2012, based in Stora Höga, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Seattle's Eternal Nocturne arrived in 2024 with a melodic death metal sound that channels the Pacific Northwest's grey skies — hooky guitar leads cutting through dense, thundering riffage.
Out of Idaho Falls since 2013, Eternal North fuses the sweep and grandeur of power metal with the serrated attack of melodic death, conjuring the harsh beauty of the high desert.
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