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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Hidden History Of The Human Race (24-bit HD audio) (2023)
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Death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2008. They deliver raw, filthy death metal from the Danish capital with nearly two decades of underground experience.
Death metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing death metal from the Granite City.
Phoenix, Arizona death-doom band merging the slow funeral weight of doom metal with the harsh vocal and riff aesthetics of death metal for a brooding and cavernous sound.
Death-doom metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2022. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the French capital.
Black metal act from Battle Ground, Washington, founded in 1996 by brothers Jake and Nick Superchi, blending symphonic orchestration and dark ambient textures into their "American Deathphonic Black Metal" style; their concept album Salem 1692 and releases on labels like Moribund Records brought them recognition in the American black metal underground.
Death metal act from Uddevalla on the Swedish west coast, formed in 2023. Ceremonial Death brings fresh old-school death metal to the Bohuslän coast.
Los Angeles, California death metal band playing in the tradition of the West Coast death metal underground with a dark and aggressive approach.
Ceremonial Flames is a symphonic black metal band from Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, whose lyrics explore ceremonial magic, Goetia, Kabbalah, Thelema, and Hermeticism. The band was founded by vocalist and occultist Bruno Soares and guitarist Roberto Ryuller, and has performed live in the northeastern Brazilian circuit, including a live recording at Suíça Pub in Pedro II, Piauí.
Black metal band from Beckley, West Virginia, delivering raw and ritualistic black metal steeped in the genre's characteristic coldness and aggression.
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