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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Heavy metal band from Cambrai in northern France, active since 2012. They deliver classic heavy metal from the historic Nord region.
A death/thrash act from North Carolina, Calling Hour formed in 2007 and operated as an independent underground project.
Groove metal band from Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, Spain, formed in 2014. They deliver heavy, rhythm-driven metal from the volcanic Atlantic island.
Formed in 2024 in Coventry, Rhode Island, Calling the Eternal meld groove and thrash metal with metalcore tendencies into a hard-hitting, contemporary hybrid sound.
Death-doom metal band from Leipzig, Germany, originally formed in Chemnitz in 2008. Across releases from Doomsday through 2024's split with Urza, Calliophis craft intense atmospheres where epic melodies collide with dark soundscapes and crushing heaviness.
Post-metal and sludge band from Kokkola, Finland, formed in 2019. They blend expansive post-metal dynamics with crushing sludge weight from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Callix Aureus is a one-person depressive black and doom metal project from Brasília, Brazil, created by musician Maycon Moura. The project blends atmospheric black metal with depressive suicidal black metal (DSBM) and doom, creating mournful, snow-buried soundscapes with lacerated vocals. Releases include “Pale Suicide (DSBM)” (2025), “Mechanical Respiration,” “Glass Tears,” “Chronica Funesta,” and “Kyrie Dolor.”
Death-grind act from Odesa, Ukraine, formed in 2023. Calloffboobjans delivers blast-driven extremity from the Black Sea port city.
Groove-thrash act from Zoetermeer, South Holland, formed in 2026. Callous Intent represents the newest wave of Dutch thrash metal.
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