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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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Death metal band from Muhos near Oulu, Finland, formed in 2014. They channel death metal aggression from the northern Finnish plains.
Death metal band from London, formed in 2014. They deliver filthy, crushing death metal from the English capital.
New York black metal project formed in 2024, channeling the city's grim urban edge into raw, hateful black metal with a cold and unpolished underground character.
Melodic death-thrash band from Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary, near the Austrian border, active since 2006. Casketgarden fuses sweeping melodic hooks with death metal aggression and thrash precision.
Doom metal band from Keuruu, Finland, active since 2010. They craft slow, heavy doom steeped in Finnish melancholy from the central lake region.
Baltimore atmospheric black metal project that wraps dense, reverb-soaked riffs in layers of ambient texture, using space and dissonance to evoke isolation and unease.
Death-thrash metal band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, formed in 2022. They merge death metal aggression with thrash speed from the northern Spanish coast.
Frederick, Maryland gothic metal band blending dark, atmospheric arrangements with melodic female-fronted vocals, drawing from the orchestral and melancholic traditions of European gothic metal.
Death-thrash act from the Treviso and Venice area, active since 2008. Cassandra's Cyndrom has spent over fifteen years delivering aggressive extreme metal from the Veneto region.
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