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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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East Hartford, Connecticut's Collective Brutality brings together the technicality of progressive metal with the violence of death and thrash, a Connecticut act that earns its name through dense, punishing arrangements.
Gothic melodic death metal band from Urbach, Germany, formed in 2020. They weave dark gothic atmospheres into melodic death metal from the Swabian Rems Valley.
Symphonic black-death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2015. They blend symphonic grandeur with extreme metal darkness from the Greek capital.
Death-grind act from Viterbo, formed in 2020. Collo delivers concise, blast-driven extremity from the Lazio underground.
Berkeley's Colonoscopy commits fully to brutal death metal's most repulsive aesthetic tendencies, delivering dense, guttural heaviness with the Bay Area's characteristic technical edge lurking beneath the gore.
Oakland's Color of Death marries melodic death metal's guitar-driven dynamism with the Bay Area's tradition of technically precise brutality, carving melody out of darkness without softening the core aggression.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Kokkola, Finland, formed in 2021. They blend melodic sensibilities with metalcore dynamics from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Death-doom and gothic metal band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They layer melancholic gothic atmospheres over crushing death-doom foundations, creating a dark and emotionally resonant sound.
Colossal Death God packs deathcore, mathcore, and metalcore into a single careening vehicle — technically demanding and relentlessly heavy, a band that seems to actively enjoy making their music difficult to predict.
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