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Death/thrash metal band from Lucerne, Switzerland, delivering relentless, high-speed aggression since 2013. Their uncompromising name captures the permanence and finality of their extreme metal assault.
Thrash/death metal act from Ahnatal in Hesse, Germany, delivering relentless aggression since 2018. Their name captures the unending deterioration at the core of their crossover extreme metal sound.
Part of Poland's relentlessly productive underground, this act channels avant-garde metal, death metal, and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2015, based in Żory, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Symphonic and melodic death metal act from Lugano in Switzerland's Italian-speaking Ticino region, blending orchestral grandeur with aggressive precision since 2020. Their Mediterranean location adds a distinctive warmth to their fusion of symphonic beauty and death metal ferocity.
One-man instrumental atmospheric black metal project from Campos in the Balearic Islands, Spain, active since 2020. Releases include Mirrors of Torture, Through the Endless, Enlightened Passage, and Winds of Melancholy.
Eternal Drak is a black/thrash metal band originally formed in Bogotá, Colombia in 1997, playing what they call "Drak Metal" — a style blending thrash and black metal with melodic influences and Latin rhythms. The original lineup dissolved in 2002 when most members departed to form Guerra Total, and the band was revived in 2020 with a new configuration now operating out of Quebec City, Canada. Their self-titled full-length was released in 2018.
Death/doom metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England. They deliver mournful, crushing death doom from the Potteries.
Symphonic power metal band from Marbella, Malaga, Spain formed in 2011, blending classical arrangements with power metal velocity. Their 2018 album Daementia uses Alice in Wonderland as a framework to explore the full spectrum of human emotion across twelve tracks.
Pushing the boundaries of gothic metal, this Turkish outfit from Eskişehir has been refining their craft. Their sound hinges on dark, theatrical compositions balancing heaviness with elegance, delivered with militant precision.
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