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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Industrial-tinged black and doom metal act fusing cold electronic textures with crushing guitar weight and gothic darkness. The combination creates something bleak, mechanical, and deeply unsettling.
Death metal band from Colchester, England, formed in 2020. They deliver crushing death metal from the Essex garrison town.
Oakland doom and sludge outfit channeling the Bay Area's long tradition of heavy, slow, and punishing music. Their sound is thick and oppressive, built on feedback-drenched low-end devastation.
Heavy metal band from Lisbon, formed in 2018. Cruise delivers straightforward, riff-driven traditional metal from the Portuguese capital.
Thrash metal band from Cham, Switzerland, formed in 2024. They bring fresh aggression and speed to the Swiss thrash scene with a riff-heavy, no-frills approach.
Cluj Napoca thrash metal and crossover act formed in 2018, fusing thrash velocity with hardcore punk energy from Transylvania's cultural capital. Their pit-ready aggression channels the confrontational spirit of both genres.
Pennsylvania death-doom and sludge act layering the suffocating weight of doom with the morbid darkness of death metal. They operate at the slow, crushing intersection where both genres feel most punishing.
San Antonio doom and sludge metal band wallowing in the slow, oppressive heaviness that Texas's extreme underground does so well. Their music is deliberately paced and emotionally bleak.
Death metal band from Asturias, Spain, formed in 2021. They channel death metal aggression from the mountainous northern coast.
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