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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Deathcore act from the Rohrbach/Sankt Ingbert area of Germany's Saarland region, formed in 2023, delivering breakdown-heavy aggression. Their Cheech and Chong-referencing name adds dark humor to their punishing deathcore sound.
Black metal, death metal, and experimental act from London, England active since 2011. They push genre boundaries with avant-garde extremity from the British capital.
Death/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, delivering relentless aggression with an urgency reflected in their name since 2017. Their crossover of death and thrash metal channels the raw energy of the German capital's underground scene.
Death/thrash metal act from Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring raw, punky extreme metal energy to the Finnish underground.
Death metal band from London, England active since 2012. They deliver brutal death metal from the heart of the British capital.
Death metal and metalcore hybrid from Vollersode, Germany, blending guttural extremity with hardcore-influenced breakdowns since 2014. Their provocatively named approach fuses the aggression of both genres into a single, punishing assault.
Appleton, Wisconsin's Earth Dies Screaming have been running a death/thrash hybrid since 2017 — the kind of band that sounds like it should be playing a sweaty, too-loud venue in a college town at midnight.
Out of Vacaville, California, Earth Down formed in 2015 at the intersection of death metal's brutality, metalcore's crunch, and hardcore's urgency — a heavier-than-average take on a genre crossover that rarely lacks intensity.
Kraków's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal and groove metal unit is among them — wielding technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
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