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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Felgueiras-based stoner metal outfit active since 2021, channeling thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and a laid-back, groove-driven approach to heaviness. Their sound worships at the altar of the almighty riff, drawing from the deep wells of 1970s proto-metal and desert rock.
German thrash/death metal band from the Stromberg-Bingen area in Rhineland-Palatinate, formed in 2018. They combine thrash and death metal's aggressive energies.
Spanish death metal band formed in 2022. They deliver brain-dead death metal with unrelenting ferocity.
Budapest-based death metal/deathcore act active since 2009, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with modern breakdown-heavy dynamics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Groove and thrash metal band from Bulgaria, formed in 2025. A brand-new act delivering crushing grooves and thrash metal velocity.
German thrash/groove metal band from Seesen in Lower Saxony, formed in 2025. They bring fresh thrash-groove energy to the Harz region.
German death/thrash metal band from Cottbus in Brandenburg, formed in 2015. They deliver death-thrash extremity from the Lusatian lowlands.
Moscow-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2022, 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.
Ancona-based thrash metal act active since 2015, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Italian filter.
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