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Death metal act from Nagyatád, Hungary, formed in 2013. Cold Reality delivers bleak, uncompromising extreme metal from the Somogy county underground.
Melodic death metal act from Kyiv, active since 2012. Cold Resistance has spent over a decade delivering hook-driven extreme metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina's Cold Spine bridges deathcore's breakneck heaviness with death metal's technical darkness, bringing a coastal Southern brutality that has nothing to do with the tourist strip.
Gothenburg death/black metal act formed in 2011, merging the city's legendary death metal heritage with black metal's atmospheric intensity. Their fusion approach draws from Sweden's deepest wells of extreme metal.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2023. Cold Without Sun blend black metal, deathcore, and symphonic elements into an ambitious sound from the Mediterranean coast.
Coldblood is a death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originally formed in 1992, with themes rooted in Satanism and anti-Christianity. After two break-ups and a permanent reformation in 2005, the band released their debut full-length "Under the Blade I Die" in 2007, followed by "Chronology of Satanic Events" (2013) and "Indescribable Physiognomy of the Devil" (2016), the latter released through Selfmadegod Records.
Symphonic melodic death-black metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2018. They weave symphonic elements through a foundation of blackened melodic death metal.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic, formed in 2024. They fuse the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-style death metal with modern metalcore dynamics.
San Jose's ColdClaw operates at the intersection of black and death metal, carving out a sound that owes as much to Scandinavian darkness as it does to the Bay Area's storied extreme metal underground.
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