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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Death metal band from Wuppertal, Germany, active since 2014. Their predatory approach to death metal channels relentless brutality from the famous suspended railway city of the Bergisches Land.
Groove metal band from Saarbrucken, Germany, active since 2013. Their heavy, rhythm-driven sound delivers headbanging grooves from the German-French border region.
Black/death metal band from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2018. Their fierce blend of black and death metal aggression channels extreme music from the north German plains.
Los Angeles heavy metal band Huntress formed around 2007 when vocalist Jill Janus, a trained opera singer with a four-octave range, connected with a local underground metal outfit and built the group into a touring act signed to Napalm Records in 2011. The band released three albums — Spell Eater (2012), Starbound Beast (2013), and Static (2015) — before dissolving, their sound rooted in classic heavy metal with thrash and doom influences. Janus's death in August 2018 marked the definitive end of the project, though the band's records remain a significant document of the early 2010s traditional metal revival.
Huntsville Holiday is a heavy/groove metal band from Nyíregyháza, Hungary, active since 2023 and delivering heavy, rhythmic riffage with crushing mid-tempo intensity. The project channels the headbanging immediacy of groove metal.
An established black/death metal voice from Nokia, contributing to Finland's underground since 2016. Rooted in orthodox black metal, their work channels darkness with unwavering conviction.
Huorn is a black metal/ambient project from Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, active since 2022 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the United Kingdom black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Black metal project from Erfurt, Germany, formed in 2024. Their unconventionally named project delivers dark black metal from the Thuringian capital.
An established melodic death metal voice from Pombal, contributing to Portugal's underground since 2014. Heavy, downtuned riffing and relentless percussion drive their compositions.
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