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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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rosemary (2023)
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L'Envol (2024)
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Czech melodic death metal and metalcore band from Karviná, formed in 2019. Their releases including Pieta and Nákaza combine melodic death metal's twin-guitar harmonies with metalcore's rhythmic punch and breakdowns.
French groove metal and metalcore band from Caen in Normandy, formed in 2023. They deliver groove-metalcore blasts from the historic D-Day coast.
Finnish metalcore band formed in 2011. They play aggressive metalcore with heavy breakdowns.
Brighton metalcore five-piece formed in 2015, featuring production mixed and mastered by Justin Hill of SikTh. Their releases from the Bleed Again EP through Survive explore themes of resilience and personal determination through hard-hitting metalcore and hardcore.
Spanish metalcore band from Córdoba, formed in 2025. They bring fresh metalcore energy to the Andalusian underground.
Doom/sludge metal act from Treviso, formed in 2003. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
German melodic death metal band from the Recklinghausen-Dortmund area, formed in 2013, whose sound evolved from melodic death metal and metalcore toward brutal death metal. Their increasingly extreme trajectory reflects a deepening commitment to heaviness.
German metalcore and deathcore band from Koblenz, active since 2009. They bring over a decade of breakdown-heavy, aggressive metalcore and deathcore to the Rhineland scene.
Spanish death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Laudio in the Basque Country, formed in 2015. They fuse extreme metal aggression with metalcore dynamics from the Basque Alava province.
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