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Halo (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black/death metal project from Brasov launched in 2025, representing the newest wave of Transylvanian extreme metal. Their fusion of black and death metal traditions channels darkness from one of Romania's most atmospheric cities.
Black metal band from Nisterau, Germany, active since 2013. They craft ritualistic, atmospheric black metal from the rural Westerwald region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Death-thrash band from Vercelli, Piedmont, active since 2004. Chaos Legion has been a consistent force in the Italian extreme metal underground for two decades.
Death-thrash metal band from Clermont-Ferrand, France, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, they deliver seasoned death-thrash from the Auvergne capital.
Black metal project from Venice, formed in 2021. Chaos Luciferi channels satanic black metal from the unlikely setting of the lagoon city.
Chaos Machine is a progressive death metal band from Bangor, Maine that has been building a following in the New England underground since forming around 2010. Their self-titled 2017 album combines the raw power of thrash with progressive tendencies and melodic guitar work.
Chaos Moon is a black metal project founded in Philadelphia by Alex Poole, blending raw black metal with doom and funeral doom influences into a sound of dense atmospheric despair. Active since the mid-2000s with breaks and reformations, their 2017 album Eschaton Mémoire is considered their most critically acclaimed work.
Melodic death-thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. They blend melodic death metal with thrash speed from the Greek capital.
Chaos Realm is an independent thrash and speed metal band from Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The band operates as an unsigned act within Brazil's underground thrash metal scene, with lyrical themes centered on death, blood, earth, and souls.
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