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Part of Poland's relentlessly productive underground, this act channels avant-garde metal, death metal, and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2015, based in Żory, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Symphonic and melodic death metal act from Lugano in Switzerland's Italian-speaking Ticino region, blending orchestral grandeur with aggressive precision since 2020. Their Mediterranean location adds a distinctive warmth to their fusion of symphonic beauty and death metal ferocity.
Death/doom metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England. They deliver mournful, crushing death doom from the Potteries.
Seattle's Eternal Dusk arrived in 2023 fusing melodic death and thrash into something that carries the grey Pacific Northwest sky in its tone. Their city's long tradition of heavy, atmosphere-soaked metal seems baked into every riff.
The Russian city of Kaluga serves as headquarters for this death metal and doom metal operation, whose arsenal includes Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Eternal Fall is a doom/death metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, blending the heavy atmospheres of both genres with sincerity and determination. The band's discography spans from early demo-tapes such as "Ministers of Mayhem" (1997) through their 2003 full-length "And in Forbidden Sky" and the 2019 album "Under the Mind's Sheet".
Death metal band from Heywood in Greater Manchester, England active since 1995. With three decades of history, they are veterans of the northern English death metal scene.
Pennsylvania's Eternal Fortification pursue a harrowing vision of experimental funeral doom and death metal spiked with dark ambient noise, constructing something closer to a ritual than a record. Since 2020 they have stood as one of the most unclassifiable acts in the state's extreme underground.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels death metal and melodic death metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2012, based in Stora Höga, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
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