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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Buffalo's Immolated keeps death metal's founding principles intact: grinding riffs, unrelenting rhythms, and an aesthetic that owes nothing to trends — a decade-plus of underground devotion.
Death metal band from England active since 2016. Their insectoid name channels death metal from the English underground.
Death/thrash metal band from Finland active since 1994 — over three decades of extreme metal. Their longevity makes them one of Finland's most enduring underground acts.
Tucson's Immoral has been conjuring desert-scorched black metal since 2015 — stark, unforgiving, and colored by the isolation of Southern Arizona's vast, sunbaked landscape.
Cleveland's Immoral Rope emerged in 2023 dragging the rust belt's heaviness into black/death metal territory — ugly, caustic, and thoroughly indebted to the Great Lakes underground.
Minneapolis' Immoralis occupies a crowded intersection — symphonic arrangements, melodic death metal hooks, and metalcore urgency — executed with the compositional ambition the Twin Cities underground tends to reward.
Immoralist is a technical death metal band from Krasnoturyinsk, Russia, active since 2014 and pushing death metal through precision-engineered technical complexity. The project channels intricate musicianship and compositional ambition.
Black/death metal band from Cambridgeshire, formed in 2022. Their sound channels extreme metal from the East Anglian fenlands.
Immorgon is a melodic death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2014, delivering Scandinavian-influenced melodeath from the Catalan capital. The band pairs the genre's trademark guitar harmonies with crushing rhythmic foundations.
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