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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Progressive metal/rock band from Espoo in the Helsinki metropolitan area, active since 2012. Their sound explores progressive territory from Finland's second-largest city.
Melodic death/power metal/metalcore band from Rovaniemi on the Arctic Circle, formed in 2019. Their multi-genre approach channels melodic aggression from Finnish Lapland's capital.
I Bleed Lava is a doom/death metal act from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2023 and merging death metal's ferocity with doom's oppressive weight. The project inhabits the crushing intersection where both genres converge.
I Chaos is a brutal death metal band from The Hague, Netherlands, active since 2012 and dealing in the most extreme and guttural forms of death metal. The project channels punishing brutality with unrelenting intensity.
I Colori del Buio is a gothic metal act from Modena, Italy, active since 2014 and weaving dark romanticism and heavy atmospherics into its sound. The project channels the melancholy and grandeur of gothic metal.
Raw depressive black/doom metal band from the UK formed in 2023. Their evocative name channels emotional bleakness through lo-fi extreme metal.
Seattle's deathcore battalion has been laying down relentless sonic assaults since reforming in 2024, blending punishing breakdowns with death metal brutality that leaves little room for survivors.
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Out of rural Unionville, Tennessee, this black/death metal project unleashes a particularly nasty strain of extremity — snarling tremolo malice colliding with cavernous death metal weight in near-total isolation.
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