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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Unholy Savior (2015)
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Gothenburg melodic death/groove metal act formed in 2013, channeling the city's legendary melodeath tradition through a groove-heavy lens. Their rhythmic approach adds modern heft to classic Swedish melodicism.
Kingsport, Tennessee death metal band Chunked delivers blunt, no-frills brutality rooted in the genre's core traditions of guttural delivery and downtuned heaviness. Their sound reflects the straightforward ethos of the Southern underground extreme metal scene.
Death-thrash-groove outfit from Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, active since 2018. Chupa Cabra delivers raucous, high-energy extreme metal from Ireland's rural southwest.
Columbus, Ohio death metal band Church keeps it appropriately grim and heavy, drawing on the Ohio underground's tradition of no-nonsense extreme metal. Their music prioritizes atmosphere and crushing heaviness in equal measure.
Black-death metal band from Denmark, active since 2008. They channel dark, ritualistic extremity through a fusion of black and death metal.
Illinois death metal outfit Church Burner deal in densely layered, churning riffs that lock into grinding, punishing grooves. Their Bandcamp output reflects a devotion to old-school brutality with a modern edge.
Death-doom-deathcore band from Perpignan near the Spanish border, France, active since 2013. They blend death metal, doom, and deathcore from the Catalan-French borderlands.
Brutal Death Metal from San Marcos.
Bloomington, Illinois doom-death act Church of Misery stack monolithic, feedback-drenched riffs over plodding rhythms drawn from the bottom of the tuning spectrum. They mine the bleakest corners of doom and death with an unrelenting, hypnotic heaviness.
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