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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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French symphonic black metal band from Limoges, active since 2000. With two-and-a-half decades of desolate beauty, they are one of central France's most established symphonic black metal acts.
Katowice-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2018, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
Spanish death/groove metal band from Escobedo de Camargo in Cantabria, formed in 2018. They blend death metal brutality with groove metal's rhythmic hooks.
Death metal outfit from Palermo, formed in 2021. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Progressive thrash metal band from Lancashire, active since 2016. Their releases deliver adrenaline-fuelled, power-packed heavy metal and hard rock with progressive flourishes.
Umeå-based black metal act active since 2017, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Swedish lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Spanish melodic death metal and metalcore band from Madrid, formed in 2011. They channel wrathful melodic death metal with metalcore intensity from the Spanish capital.
Lublin-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.
Metalcore crossover formation from the Kempen area of Belgium, active since 2020 with an energetic live presence. Their split with UK's Devils Grip and releases like "Shedding Skin" fuse metalcore intensity with crossover punk aggression.
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