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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Thrash metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive, riff-heavy thrash from the Bavarian capital.
Blackened death-doom act from Działdowo in northern Masuria, formed in 2021. Cyrograf — Polish for 'pact with the devil' — merges dark subgenres from the rural north.
Black metal project from the Wieliczka and Dobczyce area near Kraków, active since 2013. Cyrograph crafts atmospheric black metal from the Lesser Poland salt mine region.
Heavy and power metal band from Bologna, formed in 2018. Cyronic Mute delivers anthemic traditional metal from the heart of Emilia-Romagna.
Death and thrash metal band from Leoben, Austria, active since 2017. They bring a punishing combination of death metal heaviness and thrash metal speed from the industrial heartland of Upper Styria.
Death metal band from Kothen in Anhalt, Germany, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh death metal brutality to the Saxony-Anhalt underground.
Stoner and sludge metal band from Erdberg, Vienna, originally active from 2004 to 2009 before returning sporadically from 2017. Their 2023 album 'Hate Dies Last' on Bloodshed666 Records continues their legacy of brutalized stoner and stoned sludge, with the official successor band being Desolat.
Black metal band from England, formed in 2024. Their Welsh name meaning shadow, Cysgod craft dark black metal.
Gothic metal band from Hamminkeln in the Lower Rhine region, Germany, formed in 2022. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal from the North Rhine-Westphalian countryside.
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