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Minneapolis outfit JHVA formed in 2024 and immediately staked out a dense intersection of industrial, sludge, and death metal — mechanized, abrasive, and heavy enough to feel like the Twin Cities' coldest February manifested as sound.
Mississippi project Jiangshi — named after the hopping Chinese vampiric reanimated corpse — drags brutal death and black metal through a peculiar, occult-adjacent lens, producing music that is as atmospheric as it is annihilating since 2017.
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Jihad is a heavy metal band from Poland that delivers aggressive, confrontational compositions with dark thematic content. Their uncompromising approach to extreme metal channels raw intensity through punishing riffs and powerful performances.
Jim T is the solo project of Dimitar Todorov from Kavala, Greece, former guitarist and drummer of the black metal band Mold of Tree. His releases including Deadly Nature feature original metal instrumentals alongside covers of Septicflesh and Gojira, showcasing his versatility across extreme metal styles.
Job for a Cowboy formed in Glendale, Arizona in 2003 when its founding members were teenagers, initially playing deathcore before pivoting decisively to straight death metal with their Metal Blade debut Genesis (2007). The New York Times described the band's sound as descended from hardcore punk with a guttural, brute-force delivery, and subsequent records pushed further into technical death metal territory before the band went on an extended hiatus.
Joda Cema is a death/groove/thrash metal band from Bournemouth, UK, who have been taking the bullshit out of metal since 2004. Their humorously titled album David Hasselhoff's Top 50 Power Ballads (2016) belies the serious heaviness of their death and thrash metal compositions.
John Nash is an Italian metal musician whose heavy, technically proficient compositions showcase instrumental precision and melodic depth. His work channels the diverse influences of the Italian metal scene through carefully crafted, guitar-driven heavy music.
Stanton, California's Johnny Bee pursues death metal on a decidedly individual basis, a one-person project that has been developing a blunt, unfussy extremity since 2015 without the need for spectacle or scene recognition.
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