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Featured Album
Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
A Grey Sigh In A Flower Husk (2007)
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Doom, heavy, and thrash metal band from Halberstadt, Germany, formed in 2020. They blend the crushing weight of doom with thrash metal's speed and traditional heavy metal's hooks.
Minnesota crossover act fusing the crunch of metal with hardcore punk's breakneck pace and street-level attitude.
Death metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver punishing death metal brutality from the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Leeds, England, active since 2010. They deliver heavy grooves and breakdowns from the heart of Yorkshire.
Heavy metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2012. They forge powerful, riff-driven heavy metal rooted in the genre's classic traditions from the Swabian capital.
Cape Canaveral death/grind act formed around 2021, channeling nihilism, anarchy, and social rage into short blasts of caustic extremity.
Delaware death metal/hardcore hybrid formed around 2018, combining the brutality of death metal with hardcore's blunt social commentary.
Crust-death act from Modena, Italy, active since 2009. Cancer Spreading fuses d-beat crust punk with death metal heaviness, bridging the punk and metal undergrounds of Emilia-Romagna.
Death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh brutality to the Czech capital's well-established death metal tradition.
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