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Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Grindcore Album
To Serve Man (2002)
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Seattle death metal act formed in 2010, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's rich underground scene to deliver straightforward, riff-driven extremity with consistent dedication to the genre's core values.
Doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2012. They craft slow, crushing doom from the Finnish capital.
A nascent doom and sludge outfit from Albany drawing on the slow, crushing weight of funeral doom paired with the corrosive grit of sludge, named after the legendary Arthurian dagger.
Death metal band from Maaseik, Belgium, active since 2017, whose sound evolved from straightforward death metal in their early work toward a more melodic death metal direction. They represent the extreme metal scene from Belgium's easternmost reaches near the Dutch border.
Carnívoro is a groove/death/thrash metal band from Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil, one of the few extreme metal acts to emerge from that northern state. The band plays original extreme metal blending thrash and death metal influences, with the single "Panorama de Aço" showcasing their hybrid of aggressive rhythms and heavy riffing.
Death-thrash metal band from Frederikshavn in northern Jutland, Denmark, formed in 2020. They merge death metal aggression with thrash metal speed from Denmark's northernmost port city.
Death-groove-thrash metal band from Murcia, Spain, active since 2013. They blend heavy grooves with death-thrash aggression from the southeastern Mediterranean coast.
Columbia, SC doom and sludge act channeling the swampy, southern-tinged heaviness that the region breeds naturally, building slow-crawling riffs into dense, oppressive walls of sound with a mythology-laced edge.
A Syracuse heavy metal band with over two decades of momentum, delivering melodic, hard-hitting metal with a polished edge and strong songwriting rooted in the classic American heavy metal tradition.
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