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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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Progressive melodic death metal band from the Hanover/Gottingen area, Germany, formed in 2023. They merge progressive complexity with melodic death metal's harmonies and aggression.
Death metal and symphonic metal band from Wattwil in the Toggenburg valley of Switzerland, formed in 2016. They merge the brutality of death metal with orchestral symphonic arrangements, creating an ambitious, cinematic sound.
St. Louis brutal death/slam outfit Crescent Shaped Corpse specialize in bowel-churning low-end devastation and squealing pinch harmonics. They are among Missouri's heaviest practitioners of slam-oriented death metal extremity.
Blackened death metal band from Gjøvik in central Norway, active since 2004. Crest of Darkness has spent over two decades crafting sinister extreme metal from the shores of Lake Mjøsa.
Melodic death metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2019. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal shaped by the Mediterranean island's small but dedicated extreme metal scene.
San Francisco's Cretaceous pull from both the Bay Area thrash tradition and the brutal extremity of death metal to forge a sound rooted in prehistoric heaviness. Their music evokes the crushing force of geological time and mass extinction.
San Jose's Cretin are a grind/death institution fronted by vocalist Marissa Martinez, one of the most distinctive voices in the underground. Their music is whiplash-fast and viciously articulate, earning a devoted following since the early 2000s.
Death metal band from Halmstad on the Swedish west coast, active since 2005. Cretoria has spent two decades crafting death metal from the Halland coast.
Death metal band from Yerres near Paris, France, active since 2013. They deliver death metal from the Parisian suburbs.
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