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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Doom-sludge-stoner trio from Cork, Ireland, formed in 2017. Coroza layers massive, low-tuned riffs over plodding tempos, channeling the grey skies of southern Ireland.
Black metal project from Terneuzen in Zeeland, formed in 2017. Corozain crafts dark black metal from the Netherlands' remote southwestern coast.
Brutal death metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2006. With two decades of punishing extremity, Corpectemy are veterans of the Yorkshire brutal death scene.
Black-death metal band from Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, formed in 2018. They merge the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing aggression.
Black metal project from Pescara, Abruzzo, formed in 2022. Corpo di Guardia — Italian for 'guardhouse' — crafts raw black metal from the Adriatic coast of central Italy.
Death-grind act from Italy, formed in 2016. Corporal Disaster delivers blast-driven extremity in the grindcore tradition.
Death metal band from Bruchsal, Germany, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh death metal brutality to the northern Baden region.
Death-grind act from Milan, active since 2016. Corporal Raid channels relentless grinding death metal from Lombardy's capital.
Thrash metal band from Essen, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash from the central Ruhr Valley.
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