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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Death metal act from Granada, Spain with origins dating back to 1996. As longstanding veterans of the Andalusian extreme metal underground, they have maintained a commitment to brutal death metal for decades.
Death metal band from Tampere, Finland formed in 2021. They bring devastating death metal from Finland's industrial heartland.
Fairfax, California death metal project active since 2009, operating with the DIY self-sufficiency of the Bay Area underground and a lo-fi rawness that suits the stripped-down brutality of the genre.
A product of a scene with deep roots in the former Czechoslovak underground, this black metal and depressive black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2024, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Death metal and melodic death metal band from Angers, France formed in 2017. They deliver aggressive yet melodically rich death metal from the Maine-et-Loire region.
Thrash metal act from Bad Lauterberg in the Harz mountains of Germany, delivering high-speed aggression since 2015. Their name captures the act of obliteration that drives their relentless thrash metal sound.
Melodic death/doom metal act from Hoeilaart near Brussels, blending sorrowful melodies with crushing heaviness since 2015. Their fusion of melodic death metal's harmonic richness with doom's oppressive weight creates a distinctly emotive brand of extreme metal.
Named after Lynch's nightmare vision, this Highland Park, Illinois sludge metal band matches its namesake's bleak surrealism with tar-thick riffs and a suffocating, lurching tempo. Chicago suburbs rarely sound this menacing.
Erasy is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil, drawing inspiration from Black Sabbath and the slow, heavy end of the metal spectrum. The band has released three studio albums — The Valley of Dying Stars (2016), Under the Moonlight (2018), and Some Nice Flowers (2020) — through Dopesmoke Heavy Music Productions, and has performed at regional festivals including the Dopesmoke Festival.
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