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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Progressive metal band from Paris, France, active since 2020 and delivering intricate, technically ambitious compositions. Their name suggests a sound built on unexpected musical shifts and calibrated precision within the progressive metal framework.
Progressive metal band from Bogatynia in southwestern Poland, near the Czech and German borders, active since 2016. Their approach to progressive metal draws from multiple musical traditions at the cultural crossroads of three nations.
Gothic and atmospheric doom metal band from Acquaviva delle Fonti near Bari in Puglia, Italy, active since 2014. Their sound weaves gothic romanticism with the crushing weight of doom metal, informed by the atmospheric beauty of southern Italy.
Unfair Fate is a three-piece thrash/death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, positioned for fans of Slayer, Kreator, Death, and Gojira. Their three albums culminate in 2022's Into the Abyss, recorded at Realtime Recording Studios in Norrkoping with engineer Daniel Gese.
Industrial, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Piacenza, Italy, active since 2010 and blending electronic industrial elements with extreme metal. Their multi-genre approach creates a layered, mechanized take on heavy music.
Technical brutal death metal band from London, England, active since 2010 with a substantial catalog including Finitude, Enraged & Unbound, and Idiosyncratic Chaos. Their six releases demonstrate a relentless commitment to pushing death metal's technical and brutal boundaries.
UnFear is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from La Plata, Argentina, whose lineup has included vocalists Sol Spaika and Julia Sergent alongside guitarists Juan Bach and Valentín Alegre. The band released the album "Crossing Lines" in 2016, blending melodic death metal riffing with metalcore structures, and later continued under the name Acroma, releasing further material including the album "Unum" in 2019.
Unfelled is an Australian atmospheric black metal project founded in 2016 by D., also known for the long-running post-black metal outfit Woods of Desolation. Operating as a deliberately darker and more violent counterpart to that project, Unfelled expanded to include Mitch of Austere on vocals and Vlad of Drudkh on drums, adding international pedigree to its lineup. Debut full-length Pall of Endless Perdition was released in 2023 through Season of Mist.
Unfleshed is a death metal act from Porto, Portugal, operating in the city's fertile extreme metal underground since 2016. The project delivers punishing death metal rooted in the Portuguese tradition of uncompromising heaviness.
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