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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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Forged in 2014 from Patras, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Death/black metal band from Trachslau, Switzerland, active since 2015. They merge death and black metal in the shadow of the Swiss Alps.
Czech black/death/doom metal band from Volyně, formed in 2021. They weave together the aggression of black and death metal with doom metal's crushing weight for a multi-layered extreme metal sound.
French death metal band from Lille, formed in 2020. They deliver chaotic death metal from the capital of northern France.
Emerging in 2017 from Reggio di Calabria, 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.
German brutal death metal and grindcore band from Stuttgart, formed in 2018. They deliver scalding blasts of brutal death-grind extremity.
German thrash metal band from Ludwigshafen, formed in 2019. They channel boiling-hot thrash metal fury from the industrial Rhine-Neckar region.
German grindcore band from Görlitz on the Polish border, formed in 2021. They deliver short, explosive blasts of grinding extremity from Germany's easternmost city.
Spanish black metal band from Aragon, formed in 2015. They channel misty, atmospheric black metal inspired by the fog and mountains of the Aragonese landscape.
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