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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 the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel the spirit of classic heavy metal with anthemic energy and driving riffs.
Heavy metal outfit from the marble quarry city of Carrara, bringing hard-rocking energy since 2020. Their sound draws from the well of classic heavy metal, powered by driving rhythms and melodic sensibility.
Groove-thrash act from Tikhvin in the Leningrad Oblast, formed in 2020. Crazy Train delivers heavy, riff-driven metal from northwestern Russia.
Creación y Muerte is a death metal band from Quito, Ecuador, formed in 2020 and rooted in old-school death metal with elements of doom-death and thrash. Their 2020 release Necrodeimos II draws on recordings made at the winter solstice, reflecting a raw and ritualistic approach to the genre.
Creación y Muerte is a death metal band from Quito, Ecuador, formed in 2020 and rooted in old-school death metal with elements of doom-death and thrash. Their 2020 release Necrodeimos II draws on recordings made at the winter solstice, reflecting a raw and ritualistic approach to the genre.
Pennsylvania raw black metal project steeped in lo-fi corrosion and stripped-to-bone harshness. Creak operates in the most unmediated register of the genre, where atmosphere is built through decay.
Miami death-thrash outfit combining the precision of modern death metal with the kinetic drive of classic thrash. Create a Kill brings Florida's extreme metal heritage into a punishing, forward-moving attack.
Death metal and deathcore band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2012. They deliver crushing extremity from Greece's second-largest city.
Kentucky brutal death metal band from Lawrenceburg built on relentless low-tuned punishment and guttural extremity. Their approach is unapologetically brutal, focused entirely on sonic annihilation.
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