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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Active in Gomunice since 2016, this Polish act forges Death Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Practitioners of death metal and melodic death metal, this Russian outfit from Samara has been refining their craft since 2016. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with dogged persistence.
Speed metal band from Lille, France active since 2008. They bring blistering velocity and classic speed metal energy from northern France.
Death/thrash metal band from Bayonne in the French Basque Country, formed in 2022. They deliver fierce extreme metal from the southwestern frontier.
Practitioners of death metal, melodic death metal, and thrash metal, this Turkish outfit from İzmir has been refining their craft since 2025. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with absolute focus.
Erythroxylum is a death metal band from Santiago, Chile that began releasing material in 2014 with their self-titled demo. The band has also appeared at Chilean underground metal events including the Kadenas Metal Fest, where a live recording was captured and released via their Bandcamp page.
A product of a growing underground metal community, this Mosta-based brutal death metal and death metal act channels percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Active since 2024, low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Pushing the boundaries of brutal death metal and death metal, this Slovak outfit from Košice has been refining their craft since 1996. Their sound hinges on Florida-school brutality with modern precision, delivered with stubborn authenticity.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels groove metal and thrash metal with a focus on crossover-tinged fury with punk's directness and metal's complexity. Formed in 2016, based in Volzhsky, their approach channels the urgency of early Metallica and Slayer.
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