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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
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A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend brutal death metal, deathcore, melodic death metal, and thrash into an ambitious assault.
Portland bestial black/death metal duo delivering war metal chaos in the vein of Blasphemy and Archgoat, with raw, lo-fi production and relentless sonic violence.
US death metal band mining the darkest corners of the genre with themes drawn from horror and occultism, operating in the American underground tradition.
Catacomba plays raw, atmospheric black metal rooted in cold, dissonant riffing and lo-fi production that evokes subterranean darkness. Their sound draws from second-wave Scandinavian traditions while maintaining an American underground rawness.
Doom and heavy metal band from Ostrołęka in northeastern Poland, active since 2014. Catacombat crafts slow, massive riffs with an old-school heavy metal foundation.
Progressive sludge metal act from Vale de Cambra in northern Portugal, active since 2008. Catacombe has spent nearly two decades merging progressive complexity with sludge weight from the Aveiro district.
Doom and drone metal band from France, formed in 2015. They craft massive, slow-moving walls of sound exploring the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
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