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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Firmly rooted in death metal, this Swedish actfrom Piteå delivers HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition without compromise. They've been at it since 2019, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Findlay, Ohio's Ebullism takes the technical death metal template and applies it with clinical precision, a 2020-formed act that favors surgical complexity over brute force, even when those two things end up sounding the same.
Ocala, Florida's Ebullition has been playing straightforward, no-nonsense death metal since 2015, carrying the torch for the Sunshine State's outsized contribution to the genre.
Emerging from Maresso di Missaglia (Lecco), this Italian act forges Death Metal and Thrash Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Caltanissetta, Italy — death metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2020, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
When Ecatombe emerged in 2018 from Mori/Rovereto (Trento), they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal — all punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Named for the medical term for bruising, Powhatan, Virginia's Ecchymosis melds groove metal's midtempo churn with death metal's heavier inclinations, active since 2015 and apparently comfortable leaving marks.
Kansas City's Ecdysis takes its name from the molting process, and the band's melodic death metal reflects that sense of transformation — technically grounded, melodically ambitious, and active since 2017.
On the warpath since 2014, this Kherson Black Metal and Death Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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