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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Progressive metal band from Seville, Spain, active since 2013. They craft intricate, dynamic compositions from the Andalusian capital.
Death metal band from the Dresden/Leipzig axis of Saxony, Germany, formed in 2022. They carve out crushing death metal from the cultural heart of former East Germany.
Heavy metal band from Amadora, in the Lisbon metropolitan area, active since 2012. Casablanca has spent over a decade delivering classic heavy metal from the Greater Lisbon area.
Heavy thrash band from Soncino in Cremona province, Lombardy, formed in 2023. Casagrande brings aggressive, old-school energy to the Italian thrash revival.
Progressive sludge-stoner-thrash hybrid from Moscow, formed in 2019. Casamatta blends multiple extreme subgenres into a genre-defying whole.
Thrash metal band from Stein am Rhein, Switzerland, formed in 2020. They deliver straightforward, riff-heavy thrash metal fueled by speed and aggression.
Melodic death-power metal act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2011. Cascabel delivers versatile, melody-driven metal from Russia's cultural capital.
San Diego act blending metalcore's melodic structures with the groove-driven punch of death metal and down-tuned heaviness, formed in 2024.
Massachusetts melodic black metal project drawing on the atmospheric, nature-charged spirit of Pacific Northwest cascadian black metal despite its East Coast origins.
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