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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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Kristiansand-based industrial metal act active since 2019, fusing mechanical rhythms and electronic textures with heavy guitar distortion. Their cold, precise sound channels the genre's tradition of merging human aggression with machine-like efficiency.
Finnish melodic death/gothic metal band from Nastola, formed in 2023. They blend melodic death metal with gothic metal atmospherics from the Päijänne Tavastia region.
Finnish thrash/death metal band from Vantaa, formed in 2013. They deliver relentless thrash-death from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Metalcore and groove metal act from Vienna, Austria, active since 2005. They combine the rhythmic heaviness of groove metal with metalcore's melodic breakdowns and aggressive vocal delivery.
Death/doom outfit from Setúbal, formed in 1998. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Lisbon-based metalcore act active since 2025, 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.
Bratislava-based death metal/deathcore act active since 2012, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with modern breakdown-heavy dynamics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Self-described thrashcore trio from Linz, Austria, featuring Michael Morawetz on guitar and vocals, Thomas Roithmayr on bass, and Christoph Berger on drums. Their 2019 album "Deception" delivers eleven tracks of socially conscious thrash-infused metalcore.
Groove metal outfit from Budapest, formed in 2019. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
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