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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Straddling the line between progressive metal and thrash metal, this Polish act fuses polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2024, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Finnish black metal project active since 2012, with a name meaning "spinning wheel" in Finnish. Their decade-plus output channels the hypnotic, cyclical quality suggested by their name through raw black metal.
German black metal project formed in 2021, named after the wild boar and channeling primal, untamed aggression. Their sound embodies the fierce, combative spirit suggested by their namesake.
Emerging from Indian Land, South Carolina in 2025, Keinyoriik traffic in the ferocious overlap of black and death metal — a new band already mining the genre's most extreme and uncompromising corridors.
In existence since 2018, this Levanger Black Metal outfit delivers tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Their place within the frozen north that birthed an entire genre speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Progressive metal solo artist from Limerick, Ireland, active since 2019 and exploring the technical and compositional depths of progressive metal. His approach favors intricate guitar work and complex arrangements.
Five-piece death metal/grindcore outfit from the Stadtlohn/Munster/Essen corridor, shredding and blasting since 1999 with an extensive catalog including Ascension, Where The Light Ends, and a tribute to Nasum. Over two decades of relentless touring and recording have made them veterans of the German extreme metal circuit.
In existence since 2019, this Stockholm Death Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Melodic thrash metal band from Valencia, active since 2013 and delivering hook-laden aggression from Spain's Mediterranean coast. Their sound channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic sensibility through the intensity of thrash metal.
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