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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Ferocious Thrash Metal / Crossover from Austin.
Kent-based death/sludge metal act active since 2024, combining death metal's aggressive vocals and riffing with sludge's corrosive, feedback-drenched heaviness. Their sound inhabits the grimy intersection where both genres collide at maximum weight.
Grindcore act from Reeuwijk, formed in 2015. Their music exists in a state of perpetual detonation, packing blast beats and screamed vocals into compositions that rarely exceed the two-minute mark.
Saratov-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2010. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
French atmospheric and avant-garde black metal band from Mondeville, active since 1995. With three decades of boundary-pushing output spanning atmospheric black metal, industrial metal, and dark ambient, they are one of the most influential and innovative extreme metal acts in France and beyond.
Spanish heavy metal and hard rock band from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat near Barcelona, formed in 2022. They deliver German-themed heavy metal from the Catalan outskirts.
Sludge metal band from Mons, Belgium, active since 2014. They deal in the thick, abrasive heaviness and slow-grinding punishment that defines sludge metal.
German black metal band from Thuringia, active since 2004. With over two decades of output, they are one of Thuringia's longest-standing black metal projects.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Žilina, active since 2025. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
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