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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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Groove metal and metalcore band from Northampton, England, active since 2006. They deliver heavy grooves and breakdowns from the English Midlands.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, formed in 2025. Cerera brings fresh extreme metal energy to the Ural region.
Groove metal and metalcore act from Poland, formed in 2026. Cervesia represents the newest generation of Polish heavy music.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2015. They blend Mayan-themed melodic death metal with metalcore dynamics.
Chaerea is a metalcore band from Providence, Rhode Island, crafting heavy, riff-driven material that sits within the heavier end of the metalcore spectrum. Their name references the Roman soldier Cassius Chaerea, suggesting a confrontational, historically aware approach.
Metalcore act from Porto, active since 2010. Chaos in Paradise has spent over fifteen years bringing hardcore-infused intensity to northern Portugal.
Metalcore and melodic death metal band from Vienna, formed in 2016, addressing socio-political themes of manipulation, conformity, and institutional control. Their debut 'Roots' features members Dominic Grunanger, Maximilian Ofner, and Adriano Tomasetti delivering groove-heavy modern metal.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Munich, Germany. They blend melodic guitar harmonies with metalcore dynamics and death metal aggression.
Death metal and metalcore band from Northwich in Cheshire, England, formed in 2016. They blend death metal aggression with metalcore dynamics.
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