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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Philadelphia death metal stalwarts Barbarism have been operating since 2004, releasing their self-produced EP Exposure to Madness in 2008 and maintaining an independent presence in the underground for two decades.
Camposampiero (Padua)-based melodic death metal act active since 2013, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
Oakland's Barbarous is a death metal outfit that channels medieval battle, war, and gore into a sound rooted in the classic brutalist tradition of the genre.
Jersey City's Barbarus melds the melodic sweep of melodic death metal with folk metal influences, weaving themes of death, war, and honor through an approach that has been active since 2015.
Collinsville, Illinois act Barbed Wire Sandwich occupies the convergence of slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore, bringing the genre's most physically punishing characteristics together under one deliberately confrontational name.
Originally rooted on Long Island and later relocating to Georgia, Barbiturate applies a dark satirical lens to avant-garde death metal, an unusual and intellectually provocative corner of the extreme underground.
German black/death metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2025. They forge a hostile union of black and death metal from one of eastern Germany's most vibrant metal cities.
Stargard-based death/thrash metal act active since 2017, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Baregrounds works the boundary between death metal and metalcore, a newly formed act whose 2025 formation signals fresh blood in the Great Lakes underground.
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