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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Dublin death metal band active since 2004, one of the longer-running acts in the Irish extreme metal scene. Coldwar has spent two decades delivering unrelenting death metal from the Irish capital.
Death metal band from Tornio on the Swedish border, Finland, active since 2012. They deliver death metal from the northernmost reaches of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Depressive black metal project from Lublin, formed in 2025. ColdWinterSorrow channels bleak melancholy through atmospheric black metal from eastern Poland.
Örebro death metal act active since 2006, delivering relentless brutality from central Sweden. Their two decades of grinding extremity speak to a steadfast commitment to the death metal craft.
Depressive black metal band from Erfurt, Germany, active since 2017. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal steeped in despair and isolation.
Epic black and death metal band from Liege, Belgium, one of the scene's veterans since 2004. They combine the grandeur of epic metal with the extremity of black and death metal, creating sweeping compositions from the Walloon capital.
Coliseum is a black/death/thrash metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The band operates as an independent act within Salvador's extreme metal underground, combining elements of black metal, death metal, and thrash into their sound.
Lafayette, Louisiana's Collapsar applies progressive metal's compositional ambition to the humid bayou-city underground, exploring dense, shifting arrangements that diverge sharply from the genre's more theatrical tendencies.
Denver's Collapse drags grindcore's blunt-force brevity into death metal territory, a high-velocity collision of blast beats and down-tuned riffs that leaves little room for subtlety or breath.
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