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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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London-based duo merging doom metal's crushing weight with post-black metal's atmospheric sweep since 2020. Their compositions drift between suffocating heaviness and ethereal expanses, evoking swampland desolation.
Melodic black metal outfit from Russia, formed in 2016. Layers of orchestration and twin-guitar harmonies elevate their compositions beyond standard black metal into more expansive territory.
Bournemouth-based deathcore act active since 2019, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Death metal and grindcore band from Bulle, Switzerland, active since 2016. They deal in the rapid-fire extremity where death metal meets grindcore.
Spanish death metal and grindcore band from Madrid, active since 2007. They deliver nearly two decades of bloodthirsty death-grind from the Spanish capital.
Trondheim-based melodic black/death metal act active since 2018, threading sweeping melodies through a framework of extreme metal aggression. Their sound occupies the intersection where tremolo-picked black metal atmospherics meet death metal's guttural weight.
Progressive death metal outfit from Glasgow, formed in 2013. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Sundsvall-based deathcore act active since 2011, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Uncompromising death metal from The Hague, active since 2015. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
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