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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2014)
06/17 @ G Live Guildford, Guildford
Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Death metal act from Zaporizhia, active since 2015. ChaosCult delivers crushing death metal from the Dnieper River city in southeastern Ukraine.
UK black metal project formed in 2020. They deliver raw, uncompromising black metal.
Black metal project from Sundsvall on the Norrland coast, active since 2016. Chaosdaemon channels demonic black metal from central northern Sweden.
Black metal project from Istanbul, formed in 2024. Chaosdögs channels raw, chaotic black metal.
Chaosface is a thrash metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, formed in 2014. The band released their debut EP The Practice of Chaos in July 2014, followed by a re-recorded version titled The Practice of Chaos Revisited in October 2015, produced at Slowpeak Studio with an updated lineup.
Chaosfear is a groove and heavy metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, founded by brothers Fernando and Eduardo Boccomino, who originally performed as Sick Mind before adopting their current name. The band released the full-length album Be the Light in Dark Days in 2020 via Careless Records and notably recorded a cover of Exodus' "The Toxic Waltz" featuring vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza. Their sound draws from the groove-oriented modern thrash tradition, with influences from Sepultura's later catalog.
Death-thrash metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2019. They merge death metal aggression with thrash metal speed from the Finnish lake district.
Atmospheric black metal project from Cheboksary, the capital of Chuvashia, formed in 2017. Chaosfrost channels frigid, expansive black metal from the Volga region.
Black-death metal band from Polinya near Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2014. They channel goat-worshipping darkness through blackened death metal.
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