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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Boston blackened death metal band forging a cold and brutal sound that bridges extreme metal's most punishing subgenres. Cursed for Eternity channels New England's underground intensity into riff-heavy, atmosphere-laced darkness.
Pittsburgh metalcore act channeling the aggressive energy of hardcore and metal into heavy, riff-driven compositions. Cursed Form draws from the Steel City's DIY scene tradition with a sound built on intensity and urgency.
Syracuse death metal band rooted in old-school brutality and unflinching aggression. Cursed from Birth deals in pummeling riff work and guttural vocals drawn from the classic American death metal canon.
Henderson, Texas death/grind act delivering fast, violent, and purposefully brief sonic assaults. Cursed Ibex merges the extremity of grindcore with the heaviness of death metal in grinding East Texas fashion.
Depressive black metal project from Ankara, formed in 2021. Cursed in Eternity channels bleak despair through atmospheric black metal from the Turkish capital.
Gothic metal band from Offenburg in Baden, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres into a heavy metal framework from the Upper Rhine.
Death metal, metalcore, and thrash band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver a genre-crossing attack blending death metal aggression with metalcore dynamics and thrash speed.
Cursed Slaughter was a crossover thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, known for their aggressive, old-school approach to the genre. The band released the album "Metal Moshing Thrash Machine" in 2012, a 12-track record praised for its palm-muted riffing, energetic fretwork, and ferocious vocals, alongside the EP "One Last FixXx". The band eventually split up, leaving behind a well-regarded contribution to the Brazilian crossover thrash scene.
Melodic death-thrash metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2016. They merge melodic death metal with thrash from the Northern Irish capital.
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