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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Death metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2004 and among the longest-running extreme metal acts in the country. Their two-decade presence has solidified their role as veterans of the Croatian death metal underground.
Finnish black metal project active since 2022, named after the Sumerian dragon deity, channeling ancient Mesopotamian mythology through extreme metal. Their mythological framework brings a distinctive thematic depth to their black metal explorations.
Viennese black and doom metal act weaving oppressive atmospheres across releases including Atonement, Spear of Psychosis, and Beheading Pathos. Formed in 2018, the project combines the bleakness of doom with black metal's aggression into a dense, punishing sound.
Long-running thrash metal act from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, delivering high-speed aggression since the year 2000. Over two decades of activity, they have maintained a commitment to the relentless energy and riff-driven fury that defines thrash metal.
Usurpress is a death/sludge metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, blending death metal's ferocity with sludge's crushing weight. The band is one of Uppsala's notable contributions to Sweden's extreme metal landscape.
Barbaric raw death metal project from Bamberg in the Franconian Jura, styled around a primitive caveman theme and now unfortunately extinct. Their 2021 EP Grim Caveman Bludgeoning, released through Swamp of Sauerkraut Records on a limited run of 10 prehistoric orange cassettes, embraces primal, neanderthal-inspired brutality.
Melodic black metal project from Kempele near Oulu, Finland, whose name means 'mist' in Finnish, active since 2013. Their atmospheric sound evokes the fog-shrouded Nordic landscapes through melodic black metal compositions.
Doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2019 and delivering the slow, crushing heaviness that defines the genre. Their Finnish approach to doom metal channels the country's long winter darkness into monolithic, oppressive compositions.
Athens, Georgia's Utah have been delivering heavy, lumbering sludge metal since 2010, drawing from the same wellspring of Southern misery and feedback worship that defines the region's heaviest underground acts. Dense and unrelenting, they share a hometown with a legacy of loud, difficult music.
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