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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Death metal band from Reggio di Calabria at the toe of Italy, active since 2018. Their name suggesting burial and their southern Italian origins bring the genre's morbid intensity to Calabria's underground metal scene.
Hardcore/thrash metal band from São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, formed in 2015 by Samuel Vieira (vocals), Fábio Gonçalves (bass), Jhon Braga (guitars), and Ramon Mantuan (drums). They released the EP Irracional Behavior in 2016 and the full-length Chaos Farm in 2018, alongside splits with bands from Greece, Sweden, Bulgaria, and Mexico.
Thrash and heavy metal band from Brescia, Italy, active since 2017. Their sound combines thrash metal's aggressive speed with traditional heavy metal's powerful riffing.
UnderHeaven is a symphonic metal band from Moscow, Russia, blending orchestral arrangements with heavy metal instrumentation. The project has been crafting sweeping, cinematic metal compositions since 2018.
Progressive thrash metal band from Darmstadt, Germany, blending heavy instrumentation with technical complexity since 2011. Their debut EP Judas Hole was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Daniel Irmscher at theLAB in Darmstadt, delivering seven tracks of intricate yet aggressive thrash.
Metalcore and heavy metal band from Nottingham, England, active since 2020. Their sound merges metalcore's dynamic breakdowns with the riff-driven power of traditional heavy metal from the East Midlands underground.
Metalcore band from Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, England, active since 2015. Their sound channels metalcore's blend of melodic hooks and aggressive breakdowns from the Humber estuary.
Black metal and punk project from Aarhus, Denmark, whose name translates to 'subhuman,' debuting with a two-track Demo I in October 2020. Their brief but intense eight-minute demo fuses black metal's extremity with punk's raw directness.
Undermination is a death metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, specializing in chainsaw-toned old-school death metal. Their 2023 demo EP Cast Away All Living delivers five tracks of raw, aggressive death metal across 16 minutes.
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