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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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New Orleans deathcore act Cosmophobe push the genre toward progressive territory, layering complex song structures over crushing breakdowns. Their music carries the dark, humid weight of the city they come from.
Technical death metal act from Istanbul, formed in 2024. Cosmoveillance delivers intricate, demanding death metal from the Bosphorus city.
Death metal band from Augsburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver devouring death metal aggression from the ancient Swabian city.
Progressive death metal act from Teramo in Abruzzo, active since 2014. Cosmychaos blends cosmic themes with technical death metal and progressive structures.
Melodic death metal band from Carnota in A Coruna province, Spain, formed in 2015. They craft melodic yet intense death metal from the rural Galician coast.
Maine's Costectomy deal in the fast and ugly intersection of death metal and grindcore, delivering short blasts of surgical brutality. They keep things raw and direct, no frills, just grinding intensity.
Costra is a death/thrash metal band from Osorno led by vocalist/guitarist Alessandro Innocenti, whose debut album "Releasing the Hate" (2014) delivered eight tracks of raw, direct metal sung in both Spanish and English. The band had performed live before the album's release, and their material blends thrash aggression with hard rock directness in the tradition of southern Chilean heavy music.
Death-stoner metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2012. They merge death metal aggression with stoner metal's heavy grooves.
Baltimore technical deathcore act Couldcareless push brutal complexity to the forefront, blending technical death metal precision with the breakdown-driven structure of deathcore. Their playing is dense and demanding, rewarding close attention.
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