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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Black metal project from Piraeus, Greece active since 2016. They deliver dark black metal from the Athenian port city.
Slam and brutal death metal act from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2023, delivering medically grotesque extremity. Their approach pushes brutal death metal to its most punishing, rhythmically devastating extremes.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this death metal act from Katowice traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 2020, they've built a catalog that reflects Poland's relentlessly productive underground.
Avant-garde progressive sludge metal band from Espoo, Finland active since 2013, blending doom, drone, doomjazz, and progressive elements. Their 2025 album Inexorable Decay continues a catalog stretching back to Lost Light (2013) and False (2014).
Death, progressive, and thrash metal band from Poitiers, France formed in 2018. They blend technical ambition with extreme metal aggression from the Vienne region.
Exhaurity is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2024, self-described as delivering raw grinding brutality. They released two demos in 2024 and followed with the EP Perverse Poetization of Body Effluvia and a split titled Macabre Pseudothanathopaxic Procedures in the Mortuary Room in 2025.
Death metal act from Grenaa on Denmark's Jutland peninsula, with roots stretching back to 1998. Their quarter-century career makes them a veteran force in the Danish death metal underground.
Thrash and heavy metal veterans from Ypres, Belgium, with roots stretching back to 1991, making them one of the country's longest-running thrash acts. Their decades-long commitment to the genre reflects an unwavering dedication to high-speed, riff-driven metal from Flanders' historic western edge.
Verona, Italy — black metal, speed metal, and thrash metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2013, they deal in pre-thrash intensity with a melodic edge. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
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