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Dayton, Ohio's Covered in Scars combine death metal aggression with the mid-tempo swagger of groove metal, built on thick riffs and hard-hitting drums. Their sound is straightforward and heavy, rooted in the Midwest's no-nonsense approach to extreme music.
Philadelphia death/grind band Covered in Sores work in the ugly, fast-and-filthy tradition of bands that made both genres infamous — short songs, intense bursts, no mercy. They fit naturally into Philly's deep history of extreme underground acts.
Death-thrash metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2024. They channel pandemic-era nihilism through a punishing blend of death metal brutality and thrash metal velocity.
Death-doom act from the small town of Donskoy in Tula Oblast, formed in 2020. COVID-19 — provocatively named after the pandemic — delivers crushing, morbid heaviness.
COVID-19 is a one-person death metal and goregrind project from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2020 by the musician Érdos at the outset of the global pandemic. The project uses the pandemic as both name and lyrical subject, channeling the horror of the coronavirus era into brutal extreme metal. Their EP "When the Traditional Margarine Commercial Family Dies" was released digitally through Póstumo Sölstício Records.
Covidectomy are a US brutal death/slam deathcore project whose name announces exactly how seriously they take genre conventions. Their music wallows in the most extreme end of slam and brutal death metal, built entirely for fans of maximum grotesque density.
Minneapolis death/grind band Covven churn through blasting extremity with the raw energy of grindcore and the compositional weight of death metal. They're part of the Twin Cities' active and eclectic heavy underground.
Death metal band from Hunxe in the Lower Rhine region, Germany, active since 2010. They channel death metal aggression from the rural North Rhine-Westphalian countryside.
Death-doom-gothic metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 1995. With three decades of history, Cracked Corpuscles are veterans of the Saxon extreme metal scene, blending gothic atmospheres with crushing death-doom.
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