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Featured Album
Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Heavy metal outfit from Skopje, formed in 2022. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Czech metal band from Sokolov, formed in 2010, whose style has evolved from power metal origins toward a heavier groove metal direction. This stylistic shift reflects the band's restless creative development over more than a decade.
German grindcore and powerviolence band from Berlin, formed in 2023. They deliver short, violent blasts of grinding powerviolence from the capital.
German heavy/power metal band from Frankfurt an der Oder, active since 2008. They deliver boundless power metal anthems from the eastern German border city.
German melodic power metal band from Oldenburg, formed in 2025. They bring fresh melodic power metal energy to the Lower Saxon scene.
German heavy/power metal band from Fürth in Franconia, formed in 2013. They deliver powerful heavy and power metal from the Nuremberg metropolitan area.
Power metal outfit from Trondheim, formed in 2018. Their sound combines high-register vocals with twin-guitar harmonies and double-bass drumming in the grand tradition of melodic heavy metal.
German thrash/power metal band from Schweinfurt, active since 2006. With two decades of output, they bring seasoned thrash and power metal energy to the Franconian scene.
German heavy/power/speed metal band from Cologne, formed in 2011. They draw from three classic metal traditions for a fast, powerful, and anthemic sound.
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