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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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Symphonic death/black metal band from Graz, Austria, featuring orchestral arrangements and choir elements layered over extreme metal foundations since 2014. Their debut "Final Moments in Life" showcases the Mayerwieser brothers on vocals, synths, and guitar alongside a full five-piece lineup creating dense, cinematic metal.
Chicago's Errant grafts the abrasion and cold fury of black metal onto post-metal's patience for expansive, emotionally textured compositions. Formed in 2020, the band channels the Midwest's long winters and urban density into music that is simultaneously claustrophobic and yearning.
Edinburgh-based death metal and grindcore act, active since 2012 delivering blast-beat saturation and screaming vocals in sub-minute bursts. Rooted in Britain's endlessly regenerating metal lineage, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
San Francisco's Errorgeist fuses industrial metal's mechanical precision and metallic texture with death metal's ferocity, treating programmed and processed sounds as weapons alongside more conventional brutality. Formed in 2015, the band approaches the intersection of machine and flesh as inherently hostile territory.
Death metal act from Aarhus, Denmark, delivering punishing extremity since 2005. Their two-decade career reflects deep commitment to the death metal craft from Denmark's second-largest city.
Columbus, Ohio's Erthbrnr began in the chaos of hardcore and crust punk before migrating toward a darker, heavier convergence of black metal, death metal, and sludge. Over more than a decade the band has undergone a genuine stylistic evolution, using each phase as both rejection and extension of the one before.
Deathcore and death metal act from Basel, Switzerland, erupting with crushing breakdowns and aggressive extremity since 2011. Their name captures the sudden, violent energy that defines their blend of deathcore and death metal.
When Erupted emerged in 2013 from Växjö, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal — all percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Death metal and grindcore band from Harjavalta, Finland active since 2009. They blast grinding extremity from the Satakunta region of western Finland.
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