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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Death metal band from Portugal, formed in 2022, bringing death metal force from the Iberian underground. Their regal name contrasts with the brutal nature of their sound.
Thrash and death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2013, perfecting their craft of death-thrash over a decade from Sweden's metal capital. They bring precision aggression.
Brive-la-Gaillarde's Pervitine channels black metal from the Corrèze department since 2023, named after the methamphetamine brand used by WWII soldiers. Their remote Limousin setting breeds a wired, paranoid intensity befitting their pharmaceutical namesake.
Thrash metal band from Prievidza, Slovakia, formed in 2021, delivering aggressive thrash metal from the Upper Nitra region. They bring relentless riffing to the Slovak metal scene.
Richmond's Pergola has been honing their brand of deathcore since 2007, fusing Virginia's hardcore-rooted aggression with cavernous death metal heaviness and wall-to-wall sonic punishment.
Death metal band from Falun, Sweden, formed in 2010, delivering over fifteen years of death metal from the historic Dalarna copper mining city. They are veterans of the central Swedish underground.
Black metal band from Trondheim, Norway, formed in 2019, channeling the cold darkness of central Norway through black metal. They contribute to Trondheim's enduring reputation as a center for Norwegian extreme metal.
Salem, Oregon's Perihelion has been crafting death metal at the point of closest orbit since 2014 — precise, punishing riffwork that burns bright and leaves scorched earth.
Progressive death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016, named after the point in an orbit closest to the sun. They craft cerebral, cosmically themed progressive death metal with ambitious songwriting.
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