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A Past Embrace (2022)
Featured Grindcore Album
Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Diving Station is a grindcore and death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2017. The band deliver extreme, relentless blasts of grindcore fused with death metal heaviness.
Divinivm is a black and death metal band from Macclesfield, England, formed in 2020. The project merges black metal's atmospheric darkness with death metal's crushing intensity from the Cheshire underground.
Divinus is a melodic power metal band from Kaiserslautern, Germany, formed in 2022. They deliver soaring melodies and powerful anthems in the European power metal tradition.
Division Barbelé is a raw black metal band from France, formed in 2024. They deliver barbed-wire raw black metal.
Blasphemous Black Metal from Laredo.
Division of Madness is a heavy/progressive metal and rock band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2020. They explore the intersection of heavy metal, progressive rock, and controlled chaos.
Division S is a groove, heavy, and thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2004. The project blends heavy groove riffing with thrash and heavy metal.
Division Speed is a thrash/speed metal band from Neustadt an der Orla, Germany, active since 2009. They deliver blistering speed/thrash metal with relentless velocity.
Division Vansinne is a black and death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2016. The project merges black metal with death metal from the Swedish capital.
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