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Below is a handy tracklisting and guide:
CULT OF LUNA 'DIM'
A slow hypnotising melody creeps around you as this Epic monster builds before exploding into total bliss and crushing Euphoria. Your Salvation lies in the worship of Cult of Luna.
URKRAFT 'THE INHUMAN ABERRATION'
Urkraft are an incredible force that needs your attention. Combining the best elements of Death and Thrash Metal with uplifting futurist keyboards, these Danes take you to a level you will never have experienced before.
MORTIIS 'PARASITE GOD'
Norway's favourite black metal Troll brings you this dance floor friendly darkwave anthem taken from the fantastic 'Smell Of Rain' album.
ANAAL NATHRAKH 'WHEN FIRES RAINS DOWN FROM THE SKY, MANKIND WILL REAP AS
IT HAS SOWN'
This is the soundtrack to Armageddon. Hyper blasts beats, tortured vocals and riffs that wouldn't be out of place on a Mayhem album all interlocked with Industrial harshness.
THE BERZERKER 'AFTERLIFE'
The Berzerker may have lost the ghoulish masks but they definitely haven't lost the art of making the most extreme music know to man. 'Afterlife', with its neck breaking gabber blasts, horrific vocals and killer riffs, is one of the many highlights from their latest masterpiece 'World Of Lies'.
ANATA 'DOWNWARD SPIRAL INTO MADNESS'
Sweden's Anta get better and more experimental on every album. 'The Conductors Departure', which is due out in early June is bound to sway more people towards their technical Death Metal excellence. Listen to 'Downward Spiral Into Madness' for proof.
MUNICIPAL WASTE 'UNLEASH THE BASTARDS'
Get out your boogie board, throw on a zombie custom, surfer shorts and wizard hat, pack your beer bong and get ready to thrash Muni' Waste style. Unleash the bastards now!
DECAPITATED 'DAY 69'
More technical metal brilliance from Poland's favourite sons of pulverising death metal, if you haven't got 'Organic Hallucinosis' in your collection yet you'll want it after listening to 'Day 69'
EPHEL DUATH 'CRYSTALLINE WHIRL'
Never a band for the simple minded, Ephel Duath's mash up of Jazz, Electronica and extreme metal will get your head spinning and take you on a deranged journey through complex musical passages and brain melt.
CROWPATH 'THE WILL TO BURN'
Crowpath take a match to your petrol soaked face with 'The Will To Burn' carving out technical metal riffs with complex drum patterns and the screams that wouldn't sound out of place in the hospital burns ward.