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Detroit's Empire of the Wicked bring death metal to the Motor City's grim industrial backdrop, a new arrival whose name alone signals a zero-compromise approach to the genre's darkest traditions.
In existence since 2019, this Moscow Death Metal and Thrash Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Death metal, progressive metal, speed metal, and thrash band from Paris, France launched in 2024. They deliver a technically ambitious, multi-genre extreme metal assault from the French capital.
The Swedish city of Sundsvall serves as headquarters for this death metal and technical death metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Orlando's Emporos fuse melodic deathcore with punishing death metal, pairing razor-edged guitar harmonies against the kind of heavy breakdowns that Central Florida's pit crowd demands.
Brussels-based experimental metal act active since 2017, evolving from black/death metal origins into a haunting blend of post-metal and post-punk. Their 2021 album "Vide" was conceived as a claustrophobic journey recorded in apartments, a cabin, and on a rooftop during the pandemic.
Lakeland's Empty pursue melodic death metal with clean Floridian ferocity, threading grief-soaked harmonies through tight, technically precise riffing since 2020.
Chicago's Empty Grave have been thrashing the crossover circuit since 2016, turning the city's hardcore aggression loose on a hard-charging riff machine that owes equal debts to D.R.I. and early Metallica.
Part of Slovakia's modest but dedicated extreme metal community, this act channels death metal and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2019, based in Senica, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
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