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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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German death metal and grindcore band from Dingolfing in Lower Bavaria, active since 2009. They blast through death-grind extremity from the rural Bavarian heartland.
Finnish death metal band from Lappeenranta, formed in 2024. They channel shrine-desecrating death metal from the southeastern border region.
Emerging in 1994 from Enschede/Almelo, this death metal act channels the genre's primal aggression through tight, riff-driven compositions. Their recordings carry the unmistakable weight of classic death metal.
Athens-based doom metal act active since 2018, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
German death metal band from the Marburg-Dillenburg area, formed in 2025. They represent fresh death metal brutality from the Hessian highlands.
German deathcore band from Hamm, active since 2007. With nearly two decades of breakdowns and brutality, they are a veteran deathcore act from Westphalia.
Derbyshire-based raw black metal project active since 2024, burying its compositions beneath layers of caustic distortion and lo-fi haze. Their uncompromising approach to production channels the most primitive currents of the second wave.
Thrash metal outfit from Lunde, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Finnish death metal band from Vantaa, formed in 2025. They deliver soul-rending death metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
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