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Death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing death metal from the ancient Finnish capital.
Vällingby death/thrash metal act launched in 2023, delivering aggressive riffing from the western suburbs of Stockholm. Their dual-genre assault channels both death metal brutality and thrash velocity.
Death metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. Concrete Winds deliver a savage, relentless blend of death metal and grind that has earned them a following in the international underground.
Bucharest death metal act formed in 2014, delivering technical brutality from Romania's capital city. Their approach to death metal emphasizes compositional intricacy alongside raw aggression.
Minnesota's Concussed deliver grinding, blunt-force death metal that doesn't bother with subtlety — just direct, skull-rattling aggression in service of pure heaviness.
Jacksonville, Florida's Concussion bring death metal's diseased energy to the Sunshine State, channeling Florida's storied extreme metal tradition into savage, no-frills brutality.
Texas death metal act Condemn traffic in blunt, pulverizing riffs and growled menace, keeping the music rooted in the genre's most visceral, uncompromising fundamentals.
Baltimore, Maryland's Condemn the Infected deal in straight-ahead death metal that is relentless in pacing and deliberate in its ugliness, a meat-and-potatoes assault from the Mid-Atlantic underground.
Symphonic blackened death metal act from the Ljubljana and Radomlje area, active since 2011. Condemnatio Cristi delivers multi-layered extreme metal from central Slovenia.
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