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Ancient Hymns brings death metal from Galicia's northwest corner, carrying forward the region's growing reputation for extreme music since their 2024 formation. Their early work channels the primal energy of a band just beginning to stake their claim in Spain's death metal underground.
Ancient Land were a pagan black/death metal band from Embu das Artes, on the outskirts of São Paulo, who blended black and death metal with symphonic elements and themes of freedom, paganism, nature, and anti-Christianity. Their Bandcamp catalogue includes the releases In My Solitude…, In the Name of the Cross…, The Symphony of War, and Destroys the Lies before the band dissolved.
Ancient Malice brings death metal and grindcore from Dublin as of 2025, joining the city's expanding roster of extreme metal acts. Their unapologetically violent name signals the primal savagery at the core of their sonic assault.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado death metal project whose 2015 debut The Chosen Slain channels mountain isolation into brutal extremity. Operating from a ski town in the Rockies, they bring death metal to one of the genre's most improbable locations.
Ancylus delivers death and melodic death metal from the coastal town of Raahe in northern Ostrobothnia since 2017. Their sound taps into Finland's seemingly infinite wellspring of melodic extreme metal talent.
And Still I Chase the Sun creates melodic death metal from Dresden since 2019, their evocative name capturing an unending pursuit of light that contrasts with the genre's typical darkness. From Saxony's Baroque capital on the Elbe, they craft compositions of yearning intensity.
West Palm Beach death metal and deathcore hybrid with progressive ambitions. Their 2012 full-length The Seven Sounds weaves technical complexity through crushing heaviness, emerging from South Florida's deep well of extreme talent.
Andabata is a death metal duo from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2006, whose releases include Bloody Screams, Corpse Grinding Machine, and Der Parasit. The two-piece delivers the raw aggression and grinding intensity of death metal from one of Bavaria's largest cities, maintaining an active presence across multiple platforms.
Lancaster death metal project from the Pennsylvania underground.
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