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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Death metal and deathcore act from Kaunas, Lithuania, formed in 2021. Crypts of Despair delivers crushing extremity from Lithuania's second-largest city.
Denver, Colorado death metal band formed in 2022 and self-described as "Rocky Mountain Death Metal," with themes spanning anti-religion, social violence, and inner conflict. Their debut release In Death's Hands established a hungry new presence in Colorado's increasingly active extreme metal scene.
Black and death metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah operating within a regional scene long shaped by the tension between religious culture and underground extremity. The band contributes a blackened death metal perspective to a Utah metal community that has steadily grown in visibility.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin death metal band with members drawn from Subjugation, The Conqueror Worm, and Population Control, releasing The Tombs of Misery in 2020 and returning in 2025 with new material on Iron Fortress Records. The band works firmly within the old-school death metal tradition while maintaining strong ties to the Midwest underground.
Joliet, Illinois death metal unit Cryptum deal in dense, suffocating riffs and guttural vocals rooted in the Midwest underground. Their sound channels the brutal no-frills tradition of Chicago-area death metal.
Gothic melodic death metal band from the Karlsruhe/Stuttgart area, Germany, active since 2004. They merge dark gothic atmospheres with melodic death metal harmonies across two decades of activity.
Progressive death metal band from A Coruna, Spain, formed in 2020. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity from the Galician coast.
Death metal act from Genoa, formed in 2017. Crystal Sun channels death metal through an unexpectedly luminous name from the Ligurian port city.
Melodic blackened death metal act from Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, formed in 2021. Crystal Sword delivers melody-driven extreme metal from the ancient city near the Belarusian border.
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