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Pleasant Hill, California's Concealed meld groove metal's mid-tempo swagger with nu metal's heavy atmosphere and occasional thrash bite, landing in the aggressive pocket of late-90s Bay Area heaviness.
Technical death metal act from Sabugo near Lisbon, formed in 2020. Concealment delivers intricate, demanding death metal from the Greater Lisbon area.
Progressive black-death metal band from London, active since 2010. They blend progressive complexity with extreme metal darkness from the English capital.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina's Conception of Being fuse death metal's abrasive attack with thrash's propulsive riff-writing, crafting music that is as precise as it is punishing.
New Jersey's Conciner carve out a death-thrash hybrid that leans into technical riff work and relentless forward momentum, a tightly wound machine of precision and aggression.
Tullytown, Pennsylvania's Concoct stir together death metal's extremity and groove metal's rhythmic swagger, concocting a sound built for pit-ready heaviness.
Genre-spanning act from Mineralnye Vody in the North Caucasus, active since 2012. Concrete Age blends death, folk, power, and thrash metal into an ambitious whole from the Caucasus mineral springs region.
Death-doom-sludge metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2023. They layer crushing doom and sludge weight with death metal aggression from the Hessian university city.
Death-thrash band from Sliedrecht, South Holland, active since 2010. Concrete Earth channels heavy, aggressive extreme metal from the Dutch river country.
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