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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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Conjured from the forests of Nevada County in the Sierra Nevada foothills, this Northern California black metal act captures the isolation and cold fury of the mountains in its sound.
Thrash metal act from Lennestadt in Germany's Sauerland region, delivering relentless, riff-driven aggression since 2015. Their name captures the total elimination at the core of their thrash metal assault.
Cleveland death/thrash metal outfit Eradicyst grind out suffocating riffs with the blue-collar tenacity the city is known for, formed in 2019 and feeding off Ohio's thriving extreme underground.
Death metal and metalcore band from Marseille, France active since 2011. They bring intense, modern extreme metal from the Mediterranean port city.
Pushing the boundaries of thrash metal, this Swedish outfit from Höör/Ludvigsborg has been refining their craft since 2023. Their sound hinges on circle-pit anthems driven by relentless double-kick propulsion, delivered with ferocious dedication.
Straddling the line between power metal and symphonic metal, this Swedish actfrom Umeå fuses lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2021, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Groove and heavy metal band from Pamplona, Navarra, Spain, active since 2008. They bring chunky, riff-driven metal with a groove-heavy edge to the Navarrese scene.
Raw black metal project from Finland active since 2013. They deliver uncompromising lo-fi black metal in the rawest Finnish tradition.
Blackened death metal act from Stuttgart, Germany, forging a fusion of black and death metal's most aggressive elements since 2021. Their approach merges atmospheric black metal darkness with death metal's rhythmic brutality.
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