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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Free the Witch EP (2018)
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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.
Death metal band from Maracena, Spain, active since 2016. Their punishing sound delivers crushing death metal from the Granada metropolitan area.
Thrash metal/crossover band from Berga, Spain, active since 2017. Their name meaning 'Reinforced Concrete,' they deliver relentless crossover thrash from the Catalan Pyrenean foothills.
Sludge/doom/thrash metal band from Bilbao, Spain, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of genre-spanning extremity merging sludge, doom, and thrash from the Basque industrial capital.
Horn Project is a melodic black metal band from Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy, formed in 2021. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Death metal project from Kuopio in eastern Finland, newly formed in 2025. Their religiously-charged name adds an ironic twist to crushing death metal from the Finnish lakeland.
Heavy metal band from Bonn, Germany, active since 2008. Nearly two decades of traditional heavy metal from the former German capital demonstrate their enduring commitment to the genre.
Hailing from Turku in Finland, this black metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2020. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Horncrown is a black metal project from Kyiv, Ukraine, active since 2012 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Ukraine black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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