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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Santa Clarita's Pain Catalyst fuse groove-heavy riffs with thrash velocity, arriving at a punishing sound rooted in the heavier side of California metal. Formed in 2022, they channel mechanical precision and physical aggression into tightly wound songs.
Melodic groove metal band from the United Kingdom, formed in 2020, delivering accessible yet heavy groove metal with melodic hooks. They bring rhythmic heaviness to the British metal underground.
Emerging from Portland, Maine in 2022, Pain Descendant craft black metal with the bleakness of the North Atlantic winter baked into every riff. Harsh and uncompromising, the band draws on raw second-wave tradition without softening any of its edges.
A 2023 black-death metal project from Fredericia, Perdition's Mire drags listeners into the swamp of damnation implied by their name. Their eastern Jutland setting — a historic fortress town — provides a militaristic edge to their extreme sonic assault.
Groove and death metal band from Belgorod, Russia, formed in 2025, delivering full-bore metallic punishment from the western Russian border city. They represent the newest wave of Russian extreme metal.
Pain in Silence blend deathcore breakdowns with death metal extremity, building songs that alternate between technical aggression and full-on sonic devastation. The Indiana-born band has been honing their punishing hybrid sound since 2017.
Horsens' Persecutor blends metalcore dynamics with thrash metal's velocity since 2020, representing the east Jutland city's contribution to Danish extreme metal. Their crossover approach bridges the gap between two of the genre's most pit-friendly styles.
Dithmarschen's Pain Machine has been welding together thrash, death, and groove metal since 2012, creating a triple-threat assault from the North Frisian marshlands. Their genre-blending approach produces a sound heavier than any single style could achieve alone.
A 2021 Danish project trading in raw black-death metal filth, Pestiferous strips the genres to their most primitive essence. Their anonymous location adds to the mystery surrounding their deliberately lo-fi, cavernous approach.
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