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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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An uncompromising psychedelic death metal project from Bratislava, active since 2025. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Hemicorporectomy is a slam/brutal death metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, formed in 2020. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Rooted in Messina's underground, this speed/thrash metal project delivers brutal compositions with conviction since 2001. Their thrash assault combines speed, aggression, and precision in equal measure.
Hemiptera is a black metal/punk band from Brighton And Hove, England, formed in 2024. They fuse raw black metal aggression with punk's rebellious energy.
Death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2022. Their crushing approach delivers unrelenting death metal from the Spanish capital's extreme music underground.
Bred in Turin's underground, this act delivers grim neoclassical/progressive metal since 2011. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
Death metal/hardcore band from Denmark, active since 2016. Their surgical approach to extreme music merges death metal brutality with hardcore punk intensity.
New York's Hemlock trade in a stripped-down, venomous strain of black metal since 2018 — the kind of music that feels personal, antagonistic, and far less interested in spectacle than in atmosphere. Cold, minimal, and quietly corrosive.
Heavy metal/hard rock band from Celle/Hanover, Germany, formed in 2018. Their riff-driven sound blends the power of heavy metal with classic hard rock energy from Lower Saxony.
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