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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Groove metal act from Moscow, formed in 2019. Cannonball Mephisto delivers heavy, riff-driven grooves from the Russian capital.
Heavy metal band from Konstanz on Lake Constance, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel classic heavy metal power and anthemic energy from the southern German border.
Progressive death metal act from Olbia, Sardinia, formed in 2018. Cannot blends technical complexity with death metal brutality from the Mediterranean island.
Gothic folk-doom act from Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan, active since 2014. Canonis blends folk melodies with gothic doom from the industrial city on the Kama River.
Whittier, California thrash metal band active since 2012, operating in the straightforward heavy underground.
Atlanta instrumental sludge/post-metal duo formed in 2023, contributing to the growing Southern underground with crushing, wordless heaviness.
Heavy metal band from Gothenburg, active since 2013. Cans delivers straightforward traditional metal from Sweden's metal capital.
Melodic death metal act from Kyiv, active since 2014. Cantabile Wind delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Doom and black metal band from Geel, Belgium, formed in 2014. They merge the crushing weight and glacial pace of doom metal with the cold ferocity of black metal into a bleak, oppressive sound.
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