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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Technical death metal band from Litomerice in northern Bohemia, active since 2011 with tracks like To The Hornbeam Tree and Wooden Sun Cult incorporating acid-tinged experimentation. Their compositions blend technical precision with unconventional samples and programmed elements.
Keep the Rage is a melodic groove metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2019. The group has released a series of singles including "Awake," "Invader Souls," and "Hidden in the Shadows," with members also active in bands such as Blazing and Ripping Flesh.
Moscow melodic death metal and metalcore band founded in 2014 by experienced musicians from various metal backgrounds. Each song is devoted to a specific science fiction novel — drawing from authors like Robert Sheckley, Silverberg, George Martin, and Frank Herbert — as heard on their debut EP 6 Fragments of Apocalypse.
Aurora, Illinois heavy metal outfit Keeper lean into the classic and the traditional, delivering no-frills, riff-driven metal with the kind of earnest conviction that has defined the genre since its origins.
The Norwegian city of Oslo serves as headquarters for this black metal operation, whose arsenal includes second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
One of the founders of Russian 'Warhammer Metal,' active from Perm since 2009 and crafting melodic death/thrash metal entirely themed around Warhammer 40,000 lore. Releases like Hammer of the Emperor and Ingethel deliver grimdark narrative-driven compositions with aggressive Russian-language vocals.
Symphonic melodic death/power metal band from Salt near Girona in Catalonia, formed in 2024 and combining orchestral grandeur with melodic death metal aggression and power metal soaring. Their epic, multi-genre approach draws on the full spectrum of European melodic metal.
Chernihiv, Ukraine — sludge metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2012, they deal in Southern-fried heaviness with hardcore punk's confrontational energy. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Gothic/thrash metal band from Zamora in Castile and Leon, formed in 2020 and blending gothic metal's dark atmosphere with thrash's aggressive velocity. Their unusual genre combination creates a distinctive sound from central Spain.
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