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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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San Francisco's Enchant have spent decades perfecting a strain of progressive metal with strong melodic rock sensibilities — technically accomplished but never cold, with hooks that anchor even their most complex passages. A respected name on the West Coast prog scene.
Melodic death metal act from Wurzburg, Germany, crafting harmonically rich compositions since 2016. Named after a philosophical handbook, their approach brings intellectual depth to Gothenburg-influenced melodic death metal.
Los Angeles act Encirclement draw from both black and death metal to craft music built on claustrophobic pressure and relentless attack, their 666 Bandcamp handle signaling the darkness at the core of the project. Since 2020, they've been one of LA's more uncompromising extreme metal outfits.
Ithaca, New York's Enclosure have been developing a progressive death metal voice since 2010, pairing technical precision with the kind of compositional ambition you'd expect from a college town with strong music program roots. Their work rewards close listening.
Electronic metalcore and melodic death metal hybrid from Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardinia formed in 2022, fusing programmed electronics with heavy guitar-driven aggression. Their approach bridges the gap between digital production and organic metalcore intensity.
Atlanta-based Encoffination drag doom and death metal to their slowest, most funeral-paced extremes, burying their sound under layers of sepulchral weight and murk. Few bands make the grave feel this tangible.
Encoffined is an old-school death metal band from Córdoba, Argentina, formed in 2015 and deeply influenced by the Swedish death metal scene of the 1990s — particularly Entombed, Dismember, Carnage, and Grave. The band has released three full-lengths: Enclosed in a Coffin (2015), Casket Citadel (2019, on Disembodied Records), and Cloak of Despondency (2021), with a lineup including vocalists Leandro Smith and Leonardo Gonzales, guitarist Juan Taricco, bassist Facundo Urriche, and drummer Marcos Cordoba.
Salt Lake City's Encorpsed have been honing their black/death hybrid since 2005, drawing on the brutality of death metal and the atmospheric menace of black metal in equal measure. One of Utah's longest-running extreme metal acts.
Black/death metal act from Kotka, Finland formed in 2022. They channel extreme metal darkness from the port city on Finland's southern coast.
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