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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Boonsboro, Maryland's Eternal Ruin has been sharpening a brutal death metal sound since 2022 — relentless double-bass patterns driving riffs designed to flatten everything in their path.
Death metal and melodic death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece formed in 2023. They bring fresh melodic extremity to the northern Greek metal scene.
Wisconsin's Eternal Silence has been carving out a death metal niche in New London since 2014, delivering the kind of grinding, mid-paced brutality that keeps the Great Lakes underground alive.
Melodic extreme metal band spanning Madrid and Edinburgh, led by Daniel R. Flys and Jaime Torres. Their 2024 sophomore album A Giant Bound to Fall features guest appearances from Dan Swano and Sven de Caluwe of Aborted, mixed and mastered at Unisound.
Kingston, Massachusetts gave the world Eternal Suffering in 2017 — a brutal death metal outfit whose dense, churning sound carries the full weight of New England's storied extreme metal lineage.
Brutal Heavy Metal (early); Thrash / Death Metal (later) from Arlington.
Arlington's Eternal Torment started in classic heavy metal territory before sharpening into thrash and death — a DFW band that has consistently raised the stakes of its own aggression since 2015.
Munich-based metal act that evolved from melodic death metal origins toward deathcore since 2015. Their stylistic shift reflects the broader trend toward breakdown-heavy, rhythmically punishing extreme metal.
Milan, Italy — death metal and progressive metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2017, they deal in odd-time signatures woven into surprisingly accessible songwriting. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
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