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Featured Album
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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Fraser, Michigan heavy and thrash metal band blending the riff-forward drive of classic thrash with traditional heavy metal melody. Cyadine draws from Michigan's deep metal tradition with energetic and hard-hitting songwriting.
Progressive death metal and deathcore band from the Essonne south of Paris, France, formed in 2017. They blend progressive complexity with extreme metal aggression.
Yorktown, Virginia technical death and grindcore band named for a Lovecraftian entity, merging clinical precision with brutal extremity. Cyaegha delivers technically demanding death metal with the frenzied velocity of grind.
Power and heavy metal band from Pineda de Mar on the Catalan coast, Spain, active since 2013. They deliver melodic, hook-driven metal from the Maresme coastline.
Reno death metal, deathcore, and metalcore band fusing modern extreme metal's heaviest elements into a punishing hybrid. Cyanate layers crushing breakdowns and guttural death metal aggression over a metalcore song framework.
San Jose, California blackened death metal band forging a sound out of the collision between black metal's cold atmosphere and death metal's brutal low end. Cyanic channels Bay Area underground extremity with menace and weight.
Death metal band from Losning in eastern Jutland, Denmark, active since 2011. They deliver crushing death metal from the Danish heartland.
Thrash metal band from Yekaterinburg in the Urals, formed in 2017. Cyanide Grenade delivers explosive thrash from Russia's industrial Ural capital.
Gothic metal act from the seaside resort city of Sopot, formed in 2014. Cyanide Kiss crafts dark, romantic gothic metal from the Tri-City area on the Baltic coast.
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