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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 black/thrash metal and punk band from Oulu, formed in 2015. They deliver savage, bone-hunting black/thrash with punk energy from northern Finland.
Danish thrash metal and punk band from Silkeborg, formed in 2020. They fuse thrash metal's speed with punk's raw aggression.
Finnish groove metal band from Helsinki, active since 2006. With two decades of mechanical grooves, they are a veteran of the Finnish groove metal scene.
Psychedelic stoner doom band from Brussels, Belgium, featuring Guillaume CZLT on bass and vocals. Their 2017 self-titled debut, recorded at BlackOut Multimedia Studio, packs six tracks of chest-crushing low frequencies over an hour-long journey through bass-heavy doom.
Finnish raw black metal band from Kajaani, formed in 2018. Named after an ancient dawn deity, they channel primordial raw black metal from the forests of Kainuu.
Finnish thrash/melodic death metal band from Porvoo, formed in 2025. They deliver cutting thrash-melodeath from the historic coastal town east of Helsinki.
Faversham-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2014, 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.
Czech death metal band from Varnsdorf, formed in 2014. They channel old-school death metal brutality with an emphasis on visceral, unrelenting heaviness.
German black/death metal band from Berlin, formed in 2024. They bring savage black/death metal to the capital's underground.
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