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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Tula-based black metal, death metal, and melodic black metal act, active since 2018 delivering venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Atmospheric black/death metal band from Évora in Portugal's Alentejo region, formed in 2024. Their sound merges atmospheric black metal's expansiveness with death metal's aggression from one of Portugal's most ancient UNESCO-listed cities.
Livonia, Michigan's Ethereality have been twisting the DNA of death metal and deathcore with progressive ambition since 2007, building complex song architecture atop crushing heaviness. Over nearly two decades they have refined an approach that rewards both the headbanger and the attentive listener.
Wielding death metal and doom metal as their weapon, this Dutch outfit from Nieuwleusen has been refining their craft since 2021. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with white-knuckle intensity.
Houston's Etheric forge technical death metal and deathcore into a precision instrument of brutality, leveraging the city's deep extreme metal infrastructure since 2013. Their music is characterized by surgical riffing and punishing rhythmic density.
Orlando's Etheric Plague have been infecting Florida's extreme metal scene since 2013 with a volatile mix of technical death metal ferocity and deathcore groove. Their sound carries the humid aggression of the Sunshine State's storied death metal lineage into new territory.
Albanian death metal act from Tirana delivering crushing heaviness from one of the Balkans' smaller but growing metal scenes. Their Spotify catalog features tracks blending aggressive riffing with dark atmospheric undertones.
Death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Nivala, Finland active since 2017. They bring modern extreme metal from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Symphonic/melodic death metal act from Germany, blending orchestral grandeur with the aggressive precision of melodic death metal since 2017. Their ethereal name hints at the transcendent quality of their cinematic, orchestrally enriched sound.
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