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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Emerging from Indian Land, South Carolina in 2025, Keinyoriik traffic in the ferocious overlap of black and death metal — a new band already mining the genre's most extreme and uncompromising corridors.
Five-piece death metal/grindcore outfit from the Stadtlohn/Munster/Essen corridor, shredding and blasting since 1999 with an extensive catalog including Ascension, Where The Light Ends, and a tribute to Nasum. Over two decades of relentless touring and recording have made them veterans of the German extreme metal circuit.
In existence since 2019, this Stockholm Death Metal outfit delivers labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Death metal and death 'n' roll band from Pavia in Lombardy, active since 2014 and merging death metal's guttural intensity with the swagger and groove of death 'n' roll. Their sound rolls between crushing brutality and infectious, groove-laden momentum.
Death 'n' roll band from Serres in northern Greece, active since 2015 and blending death metal's guttural aggression with rock and roll's infectious groove. Their sound rolls death metal's heaviness into a swagger-laden, riff-worshipping package.
Melodic death/thrash metal band with black metal influences from Munich, formed in 2017 and named after the ancient Egyptian word for "black land." Their multi-genre approach blends Scandinavian melodeath sensibility with Bavarian intensity.
Malmö's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this death metal unit is among them — wielding HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Louisville, Kentucky's Kentucky Chainsaw do exactly what their name implies — grinding, gore-soaked death metal with zero ornamentation and maximum brutality, formed in 2024 and already swinging hard.
Laying down tracks since 2004, this Busto Arsizio (Varese) Death Metal and Progressive Metal outfit delivers polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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