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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Black metal project from Barembach in the Vosges mountains of Alsace, active since 2022. Their morbid landscape name draws on the dark forests and misty peaks of eastern France for atmospheric black metal.
Hybrid Sheep is a death metal/metalcore band from Arenthon, France, formed in 2014. They blend death metal's ferocity with metalcore's structural dynamics.
Hybrid Symphony is a heavy/symphonic metal band from Sighetu Marmației, Romania, formed in 2014. They layer orchestral grandeur over heavy metal foundations.
Groove Metal/Metalcore outfit rooted in Exeter, channeling thunderous underground intensity since 2012. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
Hybridized is a thrash/groove metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2018. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Operating from Gothenburg, this death metal project has been shaping raw sound since 1996. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
Death metal/grindcore band from Petershagen, Germany, active since 2004. Two decades of extreme music make them seasoned veterans of the Lower Saxon grindcore underground.
Hybryda is a thrash/death metal band from Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland, formed in 1996. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Melodic doom metal act from Namur, Belgium, formed in 2012. Their sound balances the crushing heaviness of doom with melodic passages that offer moments of beauty amid the darkness.
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