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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Melodic blackened death metal act from northern Germany, active since 2019, spanning Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. Their sound merges the melodic sweep of Scandinavian death metal with blackened ferocity.
Melodic black/death metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2015. Their atmospheric sound weaves melodic guitar leads through a foundation of black and death metal aggression from the capital of Baden-Wurttemberg.
Progressive death metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, formed in 2019. Their technically ambitious approach pushes death metal into progressive territory with intricate compositions and unconventional structures.
Scranton, Pennsylvania's Hallucination are death metal veterans in the truest sense — their formation date of 1969 makes them one of the stranger entries in any metal database, a pre-death metal act whose legacy stretches across decades of Pennsylvania's underground.
Boston's Hallucivore arrived in 2025 fusing black and death metal in the tradition of the American underground — caustic, hostile, and pulling no punches. New England has a long black metal history, and this is a promising entry into it.
Spawned in Iași's underground, this melodic death/folk metal outfit channels romanian ferocity since 2014. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Forged in Redditch's metal community, this death/thrash metal act channels punishing aggression since 2020. Punishing compositions and guttural fury form the core of their sound.
Scorching melodic death metal/metalcore from Finland, contributing to the national scene since 2022. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Fort Worth's Halopent have been running death and thrash together since 2018, sharpening the collision into something lean and punishing. Texas grit runs through every riff.
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