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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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Death/thrash metal band from Esens, Germany, formed in 2020. Their aggressive crossover channels the full fury of extreme metal from the North Sea coast of East Frisia.
Sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2022. Their crushingly heavy blend of sludge, stoner, and doom metal delivers a suffocating wall of fuzz and distortion.
Chicago's Helmer blend doom and stoner metal into slow, hazy monoliths since their 2021 formation, drawing as much from the city's post-industrial heaviness as from the fuzz-soaked tradition of the genre. Thick, meditative, and built for long nights.
Los Angeles-based Helmet carry the legacy of one of alternative metal's most rhythmically sophisticated bands — a unit whose chugging, off-kilter groove has influenced countless acts across heavy music since the early 1990s. Their locked-in, hypnotic attack remains as distinctive as ever.
Death/black metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2017, self-described as 'yet another symptom of our collective decadence.' Their album The Fall of Paradigms delivers intellectually grounded blackened death metal with philosophical themes quoting Oswald Spengler.
Florida's Helms Deep arrived in 2023 armed with the kind of heavy and power metal that prizes epic momentum over subtlety — loud, anthemic, and unapologetically bombastic in the tradition of the genre's great fortress-builders. A band that clearly enjoys swinging for the battlements.
Chicago's Helms Deep take a darker road than their namesake, fusing black metal's corrosive atmosphere with thrash metal's velocity since forming in 2023. The result is a siege engine built for underground assault rather than arena glory.
Helms Deep is a thrash metal/crossover band from Wombourne, United Kingdom, active since 2023 and fusing the aggression of thrash metal with hardcore punk's raw energy and attitude. The project delivers high-octane crossover fury.
Southern/stoner metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2012. Their groovy, riff-laden sound brings the warmth of southern metal swagger to the Swiss scene, blending stoner heaviness with bluesy swagger.
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