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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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Texas-based Epic of Lucius carve out their space in melodic death metal with songwriting that favors atmosphere and narrative momentum alongside sharp riffwork. Active since 2017, the band channels the storytelling instinct embedded in their name into hook-laden heaviness.
Prague-based slam and brutal death metal act known for their medically precise approach to extreme heaviness, active since 2012. Their releases including "Abhorrent Stench of Posthumous Gastrorectal Desecration" and "Putreseminal Morphodysplastic Virulency" showcase some of the genre's most elaborately grotesque song and album titles.
Pomona death metal act Epicaricacy took their name from the obscure English word for taking pleasure in others' misfortune — an appropriately grim choice for music this punishing. Founded in 2023, they're among the newer voices adding teeth to Southern California's death metal scene.
Chattanooga's Epicedium take their name from the Latin for a funeral song, and their melodic progressive death metal bears that weight with elegance. Since 2021, they've been building a sound that frames grief and complexity as twin engines of heavy music.
Technical death/black metal force from Brussels, Belgium, combining blistering speed, powerful drumming, and melodic solos since 2013. Self-described as an unstoppable entity ready to spread, their releases "We Bring You Epidemia" and "The Inevitable Madness" showcase their fusion of technicality with extreme metal fury.
Death metal act from Annaberg-Buchholz in Saxony's Erzgebirge mountains, Germany, delivering aggressive extremity since 2018. Their name evokes the spreading disdain and contempt that permeates their death metal sound.
Laying down tracks since 2022, this Reykjavík Death Metal and Technical Death Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within Iceland's volcanic metal underground speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal, metalcore, and thrash metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 2016, based in Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza), the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
Los Angeles's Epigram trade in melodic death and black metal, shaping the grim into something concise and razor-edged — much like the literary device their name evokes. Active since 2008, they've spent years honing a sound that's both fierce and precise.
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