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Death metal act from Avignon, France that emerged in 2025. They add fresh brutality to the Provencal metal scene.
Southern Illinois newcomers Emetophobia bring technical death metal's intricate architecture to the small college town of Carterville, threading dense compositional ideas through relentlessly aggressive delivery.
Eminent Scorn is a death metal and brutal death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The duo features Camila Carvalho on vocals and Paulo Monteiro on instruments, and has released the Idol of Hate EP alongside several singles including Blood Driven Lunacy and Shellshock.
Champaign's Eminent Slaughter have been delivering Illinois death metal since 2016, a no-frills operation built around consistent riffwork and the kind of brutality that tends to develop far from any scene spotlight.
Black/death metal act from Annaberg-Buchholz in Saxony's Erzgebirge mountains, Germany, delivering commanding extremity since 2021. Their name, meaning "eminence" in German, reflects the authoritative presence of their blackened death metal.
Progressive melodic death metal featuring Nick Brady and Ryan Cullins on guitars with influences ranging from technical death to melodic hooks. Self-released their debut EP in 2013.
San Antonio's Emissary occupy the progressive melodic death metal space with authority, weaving clean and brutal dynamics through technically demanding arrangements that reflect South Texas's underappreciated tradition of ambitious metal.
Death/doom metal band from Santa Maria da Feira in the Aveiro district, Portugal formed in 2020. Their sound merges death metal aggression with doom metal's crushing pace from northern Portugal's medieval castle town.
Thrash/death metal act from Switzerland named after the Japanese Buddhist lord of hell, active since 2014. Their mythologically inspired moniker reflects a sound steeped in darkness, aggression, and relentless thrashing intensity.
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