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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Death metal band from Haaksbergen in Overijssel, active since 2002. Caedere — Latin for 'to cut' — has been a consistent presence in the Dutch extreme metal underground for over two decades.
Death metal band from Canton, Ohio that formed in 2018, delivering straightforward brutality from the Ohio underground.
Black metal act from Ashland City, Tennessee, operating in the shadow of the Appalachian underground since 2015.
Symphonic gothic melodic death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. They blend symphonic grandeur with gothic and melodic death metal from the Greek capital.
Death metal act from the Hungarian town of Sárbogárd, active since 2013. Caelestis channels celestial themes through crushing extreme metal.
Instrumental melodic heavy metal project from Kernersville, North Carolina, treating the guitar as the sole vocal voice in place of a singer.
Black-death metal project from Finland, emerging in 2025. They channel spiritual darkness through a fusion of black and death metal.
Melodic death metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2018. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the Mediterranean coast.
German black metal project from Marl, active since 1996. Their releases including Put An End To Life explore atmospheric, nature-inspired black metal themes through nearly three decades of solitary creation.
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