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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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Black metal band from Le Pouliguen on the Loire-Atlantique coast, France, formed in 2021. They craft atmospheric black metal from the French Atlantic shore.
Black metal project from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic in northern Russia, formed in 2018. Cyticra channels boreal black metal from the sub-Arctic taiga.
Austin, Texas heavy metal band working in the classic tradition of American underground metal with a raw, straightforward approach. Cyto delivers honest, riff-driven heavy metal from the Texas capital's vibrant metal scene.
California black metal project operating in the underground tradition of raw, atmospheric black metal. Cytonic pursues a cold and corrosive sound built on the genre's most primitive and hostile elements.
Palm Desert, California brutal death and slam metal project known for grotesque sonic extremity and experimental tendencies. Cytoplasm pushes the outer limits of brutal death metal with unconventional, visceral compositions from the California desert.
Brutal death metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, active since 2011. Cytotoxin have built a devoted following through relentless, technically proficient death metal laced with nuclear and chemical themes.
Philadelphia doom and sludge metal band named after the Marvel Comics entity, channeling unstoppable crushing weight into slow, enveloping heaviness. Cyttorak builds its sound on feedback-drenched riffs and the kind of slow-motion brutality that defines sludge.
Thrash metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2013. They deliver aggressive thrash from Yorkshire.
Death metal outfit from Athens, Greece, active since 2015. Cypsis delivers crushing riffs and guttural vocals steeped in the Greek extreme metal tradition.
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