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Halo (2017)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2021. They channel malevolent darkness through crushing death metal.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Hof in Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver slamming brutality and crushing breakdowns from the Bavarian-Thuringian border.
Searles Valley, California black metal project Chamber of Mirrors craft cold, atmospheric black metal from the Mojave Desert region, channeling isolation and desolation into harsh, tremolo-driven compositions. Their remote origins lend the music a bleak and solitary character.
Brutal death metal band from Leon, Spain, formed in 2016. They deliver technically proficient, punishing death metal from the historic Castilian city.
Death metal act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2012. Chamber of Torture channels dark, dungeon-themed death metal from Russia's northern capital.
Black metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, Chambercraft are veterans of the Northern Irish black metal underground.
Black metal and crust punk band from Hildesheim, Germany, active since 2010. They fuse the raw aggression of black metal with the political fury and d-beat rhythms of crust punk.
Beckley, West Virginia death-doom band Chambers of Disdain combine the crushing weight of doom metal with the aggression and density of death metal. Their sound is slow and oppressive, drawing on the death-doom tradition established by early Paradise Lost and Autopsy.
Death metal band from Redditch, England, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing death metal from the West Midlands.
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