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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Oswego, NY progressive death metal band that navigates complex song structures and shifting dynamics with a sure hand. Their music is both technically ambitious and genuinely heavy.
Cosmic Terror is a death metal band from Oaxaca, Mexico, active since 2022. The band has released a run of singles exploring cosmic horror themes, including El origen del caos, Release the Terror, and Infinity in 2023, followed by Cthulhu in 2024, the latter mixed and mastered by Black Heart Records. They remain an independent, unsigned act.
Genre-spanning extreme metal project from Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2021. Cosmic Vision weave atmospheric black metal, death metal, melodic death metal, and progressive elements into an ambitious, multifaceted sound.
Progressive death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, emerging in 2025. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity.
Boston progressive death metal band that brings an expansive compositional approach to an already technically demanding genre. Their music is ambitious without sacrificing the heaviness that defines death metal at its core.
Santa Rosa, CA progressive death metal band that channels technical heaviness through sophisticated song architecture. Their music rewards close listening with layers of complexity beneath the surface brutality.
Fort Lauderdale's Cosmogyral blend melodic death metal hooks with straight-ahead death metal aggression, drawing from the Scandinavian template while adding their own Florida edge. Expect sweeping guitar leads over relentless rhythmic punishment.
Experimental brutal death-grindcore band from Lille, France, formed in 2019. They push extreme metal boundaries through chaotic, unconventional brutality.
Cosmophage is a death metal band from Brasília, Brazil, formed around 2022 (with roots in a prior project called Utterance active since 2018). Drawing on the mid-1990s European death metal tradition — particularly the Dutch school — the band plays riff-driven, gutted death metal with occult and cosmic horror lyrical themes. Their debut mini-album "Sidereal Malignancy" was released in October 2024 via Me Saco un Ojo (tape) and Blood Harvest (CD).
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