Teratoma was summoned in early 2020 by 5 friends from four different countries - boasting with a diverse musical background - who all met in Berlin's underbelly and decided to play their own version of filthy and crushing death metal. After the first year crafting material that came to be the band's debut album, they self-recorded those songs during 2021. Early on 2022, 'Purulent Manifestations' was released via Transylvanian Recordings in the USA and by Avantgarde Music (as Unorthodox Emanations) and Desiccated Productions in Europe, receiving great accolades of reviews across the globe.The first live appearances followed with hefty performances alongside the likes of Convulse and Hyperdontia. The album is virtually sold out at this point, only a couple of months after its initial release.Teratoma is currently working on new songs and ready to hit the road this summer with Carnal Tomb for a sinister trek over Europe spreading the band's unique blend of bludgeoning death metal forth.

Claustrum is an old school death metal trio: Pablo (vocals/guitar), Paul (bass) and Stefano (drums), born someplace between Trieste and Gorizia, in north-eastern Italy, all brought together by a feral passion for the death metal of old. Drawing their inspiration from sci-fi, horror, authors like Poe and Lovecraft and the misery of human existence, in their debut, self-titled album Claustrum delivers some crypt-reeking, disturbing death metal, heralding the impending Apocalypse.The Latin word Claustrum stands for a thin sheet of gray matter that connects to cortical and subcortical regions. It is considered the most interconnected structure within the telencephalon, that allows for the integration of multiple cortical stimuli, such as visual, acoustic and tactile. It is commonly considered the area of the human brain where the soul resides.But Claustrum is also an enclosed space, a fence, a prison. As the band explained: «Claustrum to us also means separation from the rest of the world. The record was born during a period of confinement due to the pandemic and for this reason it is above all an outlet, something authentic and spontaneous with which to release... more"