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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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German melodic death/groove metal and metalcore band from Böblingen, formed in 2024. They merge three aggressive metal styles with melodic sensibility.
Spanish metalcore and groove metal band from Tres Cantos near Madrid, formed in 2023. They deliver heavy metalcore grooves from the northern outskirts of the capital.
German groove metal and metalcore band from Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein, active since 2002. With over two decades of bulldozing breakdowns and grooves, they are a veteran force in the North German scene.
Athens-based metalcore act active since 2015, merging hardcore punk's confrontational energy with heavy metal's technical ambition. Their compositions trade between aggressive breakdowns and melodic passages with the dynamic range that defines the genre.
Spanish metalcore and melodic death metal band from Guernica in the Basque Country, formed in 2013. They channel misery-laden metalcore with melodeath influences from the historically significant Basque town.
Székesfehérvár-based metalcore act active since 2014, merging hardcore punk's confrontational energy with heavy metal's technical ambition. Their compositions trade between aggressive breakdowns and melodic passages with the dynamic range that defines the genre.
Lincolnshire-based groove metal/metalcore outfit active since 2021, combining crushing syncopated riffs with metalcore's dynamic song structures and breakdown-heavy approach. Their sound bridges pit-ready heaviness with modern extreme metal aggression.
Buried in Corpvs is a metalcore band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2015. The band released the EP "Catharsis" as their debut, a six-track effort that established their presence in Santiago's heavy underground scene.
German metalcore and hardcore band from Potsdam, formed in 2015. They deliver aggressive metalcore from the Brandenburg capital.
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