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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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French heavy metal and hard rock band from Chelles near Paris, formed in 2020. They play bottom-line heavy metal from the eastern Parisian suburbs.
Treviso-based doom metal act active since 2021, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
German black/death metal and grindcore project formed in 2024. They merge three strands of extreme metal into a toxic sonic assault.
German grindcore and powerviolence band from Berlin, formed in 2023. They deliver short, violent blasts of grinding powerviolence from the capital.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Elst, active since 2023. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Black metal project from Italy, emerging in 2021. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Italian origins.
Bryansk-based doom metal act active since 2023, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2019. They deliver bound and driven melodic death metal from the Finnish capital.
Stoke-on-Trent-based deathcore act active since 2020, 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.
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