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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Brave New World (2025)
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Thrash metal/metalcore band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2004, blending thrash and death metal with hardcore. Having performed at major festivals including Dynamo, Wacken, and With Full Force, their tracks received heavy rotation on Viva during their two-decade career.
Akron's Hate Theory have been working the fertile middle ground between death metal and metalcore since 2017, building a sound with the brutality of the former and the structural hooks of the latter. Ohio's industrial heritage informs their heavy, purposeful approach.
Born in the savage underground of Rovaniemi, this metalcore act has delivered unflinching intensity since 2016. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
Melodic Death/Thrash Metal/Metalcore outfit rooted in Norrköping / Ljungsbro, channeling raw underground intensity since 2006. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Hard-hitting metalcore from San Marcos.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Aalborg, Denmark, formed in 2018. Their polished sound bridges Scandinavian melodic death metal with modern metalcore from northern Jutland.
Haundead is a metalcore/melodic death/groove metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2018 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Metalcore band from Cottbus, Germany, active since 2016. Their aggressive sound brings the intensity of metalcore to the Brandenburg region of eastern Germany.
Thrash Metal (early); Metalcore (later) force from Belgrade, raw and relentless since 2020. Tight, aggressive compositions built on speed and precision define their assault.
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