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A Past Embrace (2022)
Featured Grindcore Album
Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Cleethorpes, England, formed in 2019. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the Lincolnshire coast.
Doom and sludge metal band from London, active since 2010. They deliver crushing, slow-burning heaviness from the English capital.
Death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing death metal from northern Finland.
Denver, Colorado extreme metal outfit formed in 1992, renowned for a chaotic blend of grindcore, death metal, and progressive elements that has made them one of the most technically adventurous acts in the American underground; their albums on Relapse Records, including Lucid Interval and Xenosapien, are landmarks of experimental extreme metal.
Brutal death metal act from Izhevsk in the Udmurt Republic, active since 2014. Cephalic Impurity delivers punishing brutality from the Ural region.
Brutal death metal act from Vladivostok, Russia's Pacific port city, active since 2015. Cephalitis by Torture channels relentless brutality from the Far East.
Thrash metal band from Athens, Ohio, playing aggressive, riff-driven thrash in the American tradition.
Industrial metal project from France, emerging in 2025. They channel mechanized aggression through industrial metal.
Baltimore, Maryland band fusing death metal heaviness with progressive metal structures and djent-influenced rhythmic complexity, resulting in a technically ambitious and atmospheric sound.
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