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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Finnish thrash metal band from Kotka, formed in 2012. They play dust-raising thrash metal from the southeastern Finnish coast.
French heavy metal band from Aix-en-Provence, formed in 2015. They play traditional heavy metal from the sun-drenched Provence region.
Heavy and groove metal band from Martigny, Switzerland, active since 2018. They pair heavy metal power with groove metal's rhythmic crunch from the Rhone Valley.
Spanish funeral doom metal band from León, formed in 2022. They specialize in glacially slow, devastatingly heavy funeral doom inspired by barren, blasted landscapes.
Larissa-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2011, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Finnish death metal band from Turku, formed in 2024. They deliver fresh death metal from Finland's oldest city.
Since 2016, this Norwegian thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Kongsberg. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Athens-based technical death metal act active since 2017, weaving labyrinthine guitar work and shifting time signatures into their extreme metal framework. Their compositions demand both virtuosity and visceral impact, balancing cerebral complexity with gut-level heaviness.
Blasterror is a death/grind band from Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2014 and now split-up. The project blended brutal death metal with grindcore, releasing material including the 2016 EP "20 Minutos de Kaos, Ódio e Revolta" via their Bandcamp page. The band operated as an independent act within the Brazilian extreme metal underground.
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