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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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San Antonio deathcore/metalcore with Texas swagger. Unapologetically heavy with Latin influences.
Metalcore band from Manchester, England, active since 2012, delivering atmospheric and dynamic metalcore from one of England's most musically fertile cities. Their sound channels metalcore's blend of melody and aggression.
Los Angeles's Upon Stone have built their sound on the melodic death metal tradition since forming in 2021, bringing a gothic sensibility and emotional weight to a genre often dominated by pure aggression. Atmospheric and dark, they stand apart from the coastal city's more straightforward heavy acts.
Upon the Altar is a blackened death metal band from Tarnow, Poland, delivering what they describe as a pure evil tribute to nineties extreme metal. Their prolific output since 2020 includes the albums Absit ab Ordine Luminis and Profanation's Vapor alongside multiple demos and splits.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Southampton, England, active since 2012 with over a decade of experience. Their sound bridges the melodic richness of Scandinavian death metal with the energetic hooks of metalcore.
Groove metal and crossover band from Macclesfield in Cheshire, England, active since 2017. Their sound combines groove metal's rhythmic heaviness with crossover's punk-influenced urgency.
Brutal death metal band from Narbonne in southern France, active since 2023 and delivering punishing extremity from the Languedoc coast. Their sound channels the genre's uncompromising aggression through raw, visceral compositions.
Death and thrash metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, channeling the crossover intensity of both genres since 2012. Their sound merges thrash metal's velocity with death metal's guttural ferocity, rooted in the aggressive traditions of the German metal scene.
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