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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Symphonic metalcore band from Aachen, Germany, formed in 2019. Their ambitious fusion layers orchestral grandeur over metalcore foundations in an unusual but distinctive combination.
Horizon Ablaze is a black/death metal band from Kristiansand, Norway, formed in 2018. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Heavy metal outfit from the eastern Finnish city of Kuopio, active since 2012. Over a decade of work from the Savo region has produced reliable, riff-driven heavy metal with Finnish determination.
Death metal and grindcore act from Helsinki, active since 2018. Their visceral name matches a sound that blends death metal's heaviness with grindcore's blasting brevity from Finland's capital.
Stoner/doom metal band from Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, formed in 2024. Their thick, riff-heavy sound channels the hypnotic weight of stoner doom from southwestern Germany.
Gothic and doom metal project from Graz, Austria, formed in 2014, creating slow-paced, heavy, and emotionally charged compositions. Their debut Mothership, recorded and mastered by Fabio Perathoner, invites listeners to walk into the grey with three tracks of contemplative, ocean-gazing doom.
A savage progressive metal entity from Sfântu Gheorghe, contributing to the romanian underground since 2020. Their work contributes a distinctive voice to their regional underground scene.
Operating from Kaliningrad, this melodic black metal project has been shaping scorching sound since 2025. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Heavy metal band from Munster, Germany, active since 2013. Named after the shape-shifting horror from Guy de Maupassant's classic story, they deliver commanding traditional metal from Westphalia.
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