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Fresh out of St. Louis as of 2025, Echoes of Maleficium arrive with a sound rooted in melodic technical deathcore — tight, layered, and already positioning themselves at the more ambitious end of the subgenre.
Death, melodic death, metalcore, and progressive metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring a technically ambitious multi-genre approach to the central Finnish metal scene.
Minneapolis melodic death metallers Echoes of the Fallen have been sharpening their Scandinavian-influenced sound since 2015, threading melody through heavy, purposeful riffing in the heart of the Midwest.
A product of the birthplace of heavy metal itself, this Brighton-based death metal and melodic death metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2025, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Blackened death metal act from Thuringia, Germany, forging a fusion of black and death metal's most aggressive elements since 2022. Their ecclesiastical name hints at a thematic engagement with religious and spiritual darkness.
Death/thrash metal band with groove influences from Breda, Netherlands active since 2012. Their sound fuses death metal's heaviness with thrash speed and groove metal's rhythmic weight from North Brabant.
Death/thrash metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, active since 2015. They deliver scorching extreme metal from above the 65th parallel.
Ecliptic Sunset is a black/death metal band from Salta, Argentina, founded in 1998 by guitarist and vocalist Alejandro Medina, who wrote and arranged all music on their releases. The band released three studio albums: '...From These Dried Lands' (2003), 'Of Torment and Grief' (2005), and 'Sinister Temperance' (2015), before splitting up in 2022.
Cortland, New York's Ecliptic Vision have been grinding away at straight-ahead death metal since 2016 — no frills, no distractions, just the genre's core brutality done with conviction.
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