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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Active since 1999 from the small Toledo-province village of Segurilla, Profecía has been blending heavy metal with folk elements for over a quarter century. Their remarkable longevity in rural Castilla-La Mancha makes them one of the region's most enduring metal acts.
Berlin's Ploutonion emerged in 2022 with death metal named after the ancient Greek portal to the underworld. Their capital-city base provides access to Berlin's deep well of extreme metal talent, and their classical reference suggests lyrical ambitions beyond the genre's typical fare.
Melodic death and doom metal band from Ankara, Turkey, formed in 2022, crafting dark, melodic metal from the Turkish capital. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melody to the Anatolian underground.
Active since 2010, Bern's Polestar has spent over a decade refining their take on Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal. Their patient approach to releases suggests a commitment to quality over quantity, each output carefully honed within the Swiss capital's tight-knit metal community.
One-man melodic death and black metal project from Brest, Belarus, created by Robert (Enotovich) in 2020 as a continuation of the earlier Aztaroth project. All guitar parts are recorded by a single person, resulting in releases like Insomnia and Winter Is Coming.
Brunswick's Ponthiever brings Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to Lower Saxony since 2022. Their Gothenburg-worship approach — harmonized leads over driving rhythms — finds a welcoming home in the historically significant ducal city.
Melodic death metal band from Povazska Bystrica, Slovakia, active since 2005, delivering two decades of melodic death metal from the Povazie region. They are among the longest-running melodic death metal acts in Slovakia.
Alzira's Pron delivers brutal death metal and grindcore from the Valencian Ribera Alta since 2014. Their Júcar river valley setting provides an unlikely home for some of the region's most unrelenting sonic punishment.
Melodic death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2021, painting vivid sonic portraits of suffering through melodic yet aggressive death metal. They bring emotional depth to the northern Finnish metal scene.
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