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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Groove metal and metalcore band from Espoo, Finland, active since 2012. They blend heavy grooves with metalcore dynamics from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Death-thrash metal band from Vigo, Spain, active since 2013. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from the Galician Atlantic coast.
Minnesota brutal death and slam metal band weaponizing extremity with maximum sonic grotesquerie and gut-punch riffing. Cute Puppy Decapitation piles brutal death metal's most visceral elements onto a foundation of slamming, bowel-rattling heaviness.
Heavy metal band from London, formed in 2022. They deliver classic heavy metal from the English capital.
Depressive black metal project from Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region, formed in 2019. Cuts channels bleak, self-destructive themes through atmospheric black metal from central Ukraine.
Crossover, heavy, and thrash metal band from East Flanders, Belgium, formed in 2018 with the motto 'If you want to cut the crap, use a Cuttermess.' Their releases 'Lie/Sense' and 'Take 'm To The Guillotine' deliver no-nonsense crossover metal.
Brutal death metal and deathcore act from Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. They deliver slamming brutality and crushing breakdowns from the famous Bohemian spa town.
Pittsburgh grindcore and metalcore band fusing brief, violent grind blasts with the heavy breakdowns of metalcore. Cutting Ties channels the Pennsylvania city's underground intensity into short, punishing bursts.
Heavy metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver classic, riff-driven heavy metal from the former West German capital.
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