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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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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.
Crust punk and sludge metal band from Hof in Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2020. They fuse the raw political fury of crust punk with sludge metal's oppressive weight.
Black metal project from Heraklion, Crete, formed in 2021. Cursed Within channels the isolation of the Mediterranean island into frigid, atmospheric black metal.
Death metal and deathcore band from Kuopio, Finland, active since 2011. They deliver crushing extremity from the eastern Finnish lakeland.
Cursedflesh is a death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, active since 2022 under the Metal Archives listing. Operating under the Bandcamp name Curse of Flesh, the band has released a demo and the EP "Spiritual Preservation Through Self Immolation", delivering a raw, underground death metal sound within Brazil's extreme metal underground.
One-man experimental post-black metal project from Innsbruck, Austria, described as coming 'from the Alps.' Their releases 'Kreislauf der Verdammnis' and 'Parasites of the Universe' blend DSBM, melodic black metal, and blackgaze into deeply personal, atmospheric extremity.
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