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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Dance Devil Dance (Live at Sonic Temple) (2024)
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Columbus, Ohio's Erthbrnr began in the chaos of hardcore and crust punk before migrating toward a darker, heavier convergence of black metal, death metal, and sludge. Over more than a decade the band has undergone a genuine stylistic evolution, using each phase as both rejection and extension of the one before.
Drawing from Codogno (Lodi)'s musical fabric, this Italian act forges Black Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Linköping, Sweden — black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2018, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Deathcore and death metal act from Basel, Switzerland, erupting with crushing breakdowns and aggressive extremity since 2011. Their name captures the sudden, violent energy that defines their blend of deathcore and death metal.
When Erupted emerged in 2013 from Växjö, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal — all percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Death metal and grindcore band from Harjavalta, Finland active since 2009. They blast grinding extremity from the Satakunta region of western Finland.
Progressive thrash metal act from Hamburg, Germany, pushing the boundaries of thrash through technical complexity since 2018. Their name describes the explosive, systemic decay that drives their intricate, high-energy compositions.
San Diego's Erusopxecinomeddetaeperhguorhtserisednamuhllafonoitacidarecitametsys — whose name is itself an act of defiance against legibility — practices raw black metal in the most confrontational and uncompromising sense, rejecting accessibility at every level from naming to production to ideology. Formed in 2023, the project treats obscurantism as a principled stance.
Thrash metal and metalcore act from Germany, formed in 2025, merging thrash velocity with metalcore's rhythmic intensity. Their concise name reflects a stripped-down, no-frills approach to aggressive metal.
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