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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Crafting their sound since 2013, this Krasnodar Death Metal and Progressive Metal outfit delivers polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Kyiv's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal and melodic death metal unit is among them — wielding technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Death metal and melodic death metal band from France, active since 2015. They deliver aggressive yet melodically structured death metal.
Death metal act from Duren in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, delivering visceral extremity since 2006. Their two-decade career reflects enduring commitment to death metal's most fearsome and aggressive traditions.
A product of the Netherlands' punishingly heavy metal scene, this black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2026, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Wielding death metal, doom metal, and gothic metal as their weapon, this Norwegian outfit from Karmøy has been refining their craft since 2007. Their sound hinges on dark, theatrical compositions balancing heaviness with elegance, delivered with absolute focus.
Black metal project from Serres in northern Greece, active since 2011. Their Swedish name meaning 'Eternal Sorrow' reflects their bleak black metal vision from the Macedonian hinterland.
The Italian city of Vicenza serves as headquarters for this black metal operation, whose arsenal includes second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Long Island's Evighet — the Swedish word for 'eternity' — has been haunting the New York black metal underground out of Nesconset since 2020. The name's Scandinavian reference signals an act that takes the Norwegian and Swedish roots of the genre seriously, channeling that tradition through an American suburban lens.
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