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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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German melodic death metal and metalcore band from Greifswald on the Baltic coast, formed in 2011. They craft melodic death metal with metalcore intensity from Germany's far northeast.
Atmospheric black metal entity from Miass, formed in 2018. Their sound envelops the listener in walls of reverb-drenched tremolo picking and shimmering ambient passages that dissolve the boundary between beauty and ferocity.
Belluno-based power metal act active since 2013, delivering anthemic heavy metal built on soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and melodic guitar leads. Their compositions embrace the genre's tradition of epic songwriting and technical proficiency.
German death metal band from Hamburg, formed in 2019. They channel final-breath death metal intensity from the Hanseatic port city.
German death metal, hardcore, and powerviolence band from Berlin, formed in 2020. They fuse three aggressive genres into a short, violent sonic assault.
Speed metal band from Hasselt, Belgium, formed in 2023. They channel the rapid-fire intensity and whiplash energy that define classic speed metal.
Spanish heavy metal band from Asturias, formed in 2021. They play traditional heavy metal from the green mountains of northern Spain.
German grindcore band formed in 2017. They deliver terse, explosive grindcore with an intellectual edge.
Makiivka-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2015, 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.
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