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The Bestiary (2025)
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German death metal band from Potsdam, formed in 2017. They deliver brutish, no-nonsense death metal from the Brandenburg underground.
German melodic death metal band from Bad Tabarz in Thuringia, formed in 2017. They craft melodic death metal with Nordic influences from the forests of the Thuringian highlands.
Beast Conjurator was a Lovecraftian death metal band from Recife, Brazil, active from 2012 to around 2016. Founded by Sphynx and C Le Sorcier, then expanded with The Dunwich Horror, the band built their identity around H.P. Lovecraft mythology and occult themes, releasing the "First Conjuration" demo (2012) and the "Born from the Darkest Entrails" EP (2013). The posthumous full-length "Summoned to the Abyss" appeared on CD via Dying Music in 2017 after the band dissolved.
German death metal band from Marl, formed in 2019. They channel primal death metal ferocity from the industrial Ruhr region.
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Stockholm-based death metal act active since 2023, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Finnish death metal band formed in 2014. They deliver bestial death metal with a primitive, unrelenting approach.
Black/thrash metal act from Stockholm, formed in 2013. Their compositions hurtle forward at breakneck tempos, driven by the marriage of thrash's precision riffing and black metal's hostile atmosphere.
Bydgoszcz-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2019, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
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