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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
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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Black and death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2021, delivering pestilent extremity from the French capital. They bring diseased blackened death metal to the Parisian underground.
Black metal band from Faro, Portugal, formed in 2021, channeling pestilence through black metal from the Algarve coast. They bring diseased darkness to southern Portugal.
Emerging from Ocala, Florida in 2021, Pestiferous carries the torch of Florida's storied death metal lineage with a relentless and putrid ferocity that honors the state's legendary brutality.
Raw black and death metal project from Denmark, formed in 2021, delivering unfiltered extremity at the intersection of black and death metal. They inhabit the most caustic fringes of the Danish underground.
Black metal band from Albi, France, formed in 2013, channeling plague-era darkness through atmospheric black metal from the Tarn department. Their name evokes the pestilence that fuels their sonic vision.
Thrash metal and punk band from Denmark, formed in 2021, combining the speed of thrash with punk's raw attitude. Their crossover approach channels both genres' rebellious energy.
A Karlsruhe stalwart since 2008, Pestilator has spent over fifteen years honing razor-sharp thrash riffing in the Baden tradition. Their longevity in the German thrash underground speaks to a consistency that keeps pit-goers coming back for more.
Thrash metal band from Kuusamo, Finland, formed in 2009, sharing their name with the legendary Dutch death metal band but carving their own thrash metal path from the remote reaches of northeastern Finland.
Blackened death and doom metal band from the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2018, combining the crushing weight of doom with blackened death metal ferocity. They deliver oppressive, slow-burning extremity from the Spanish Basque region.
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