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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Melodic death/thrash metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They combine melodic sensibility with the aggression of death and thrash metal.
Experimental death metal trio from Auch in southwestern France, formed in 2012, featuring Ivy Brizard on vocals, Mickael Le Van on guitar, and Nicolas Mendousse on drums. Their djent-inflected approach explores dystopian and philosophical themes across releases like One Day On Earth and their 2024 EP on M&O Music.
Bristol-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2013, 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.
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German melodic death metal band from Warburg, active since 2000. With two-and-a-half decades of melodic death metal, they are one of the most seasoned acts in the Westphalian extreme metal scene.
German melodic death metal band from Regensburg, active since 2007. They bring nearly two decades of refined melodic death metal to the Bavarian underground.
Spanish death metal band from Bilbao, active since 2005. With two decades of output, they are a cornerstone of the Basque death metal scene.
Burial was a thrash/death metal band from Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2005 and now split up. The coastal São Paulo city of Guarujá has a longer underground metal history, with an earlier local act of the same name releasing a demo as far back as 1991, but this incarnation operated in the 2000s before disbanding.
Borås-based doom metal act active since 2020, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
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