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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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Emerging from Stockholm's underground, this progressive death/doom metal act has been forging devastating sonic fury since 2015. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Death/thrash/groove metal band from Iserlohn, Germany, active since 2012, freely distributing their music under Creative Commons. Their demo Pitch Black Attitude delivers ten tracks of politically charged death 'n' roll that blends death metal aggression with socially conscious themes.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Wolfenbuttel, Germany, formed in 2018. Their polished sound blends Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with the intensity of modern metalcore.
Spawned in Brest's underground, this melodic thrash/death metal outfit channels french ferocity since 2025. Heavy, downtuned riffing and relentless percussion drive their compositions.
Death metal band from Brno, Czech Republic, formed in 2022. Their brutal approach draws on the rich tradition of Czech death metal, delivering crushing heaviness from the Moravian capital.
Goregrind act from Macclesfield in Cheshire, active since 2023. Their clinical name promises the medical-horror extremity that goregrind demands, delivered from the English northwest.
Punishing melodic death metal emanating from Toulouse, active since 2023 within France's metal scene. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Haegen is a folk metal band from Osimo (Ancona), Italy, formed in 2015. They weave folk traditions into heavy metal compositions.
Haeiresis is a black metal/ambient project from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2004 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Lithuania black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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