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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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Dallas doom and sludge metal band anchored in crushing mid-paced heaviness and a dark, suffocating atmosphere. Cynical delivers the kind of slow, heavy punishment that defines Texas sludge.
Brutal death metal band from Saarbrucken, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver punishing, guttural brutality from the Franco-German border region.
Boston death/grind band operating in the New England extreme metal underground with an unrelenting approach to brutality and noise. Cynicism attacks with short, punishing blasts of combined death metal and grindcore aggression.
Gothic industrial metal act from Stange in Hedmark, active since 2008. Cynicon merges dark electronic elements with gothic metal from the Norwegian interior.
Heavy metal act from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2018, blending groove metal, power metal, and traditional heavy metal. Their versatile sound draws from multiple metal traditions to create a powerful, hook-driven attack.
Boise, Idaho brutal death metal band delivering pulverizing, technically executed brutality from the Mountain West underground. Cynosure combines crushing riff structures with merciless percussion in the classic American brutal death metal tradition.
Olympia, Washington band synthesizing power, progressive, heavy, and thrash metal into a dynamically ambitious and melodically rich sound. Cyperus draws from across the metal spectrum with technical musicianship and broad compositional range.
Technical death metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, formed in 2014. They blend technical precision and complex arrangements with death metal aggression.
Death-thrash metal band from Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2024. They merge death metal brutality with thrash speed from the historic Reformation city.
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